Re: new version

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Peter Münster wrote:
> On Fri, 27 May 2005, Adam Lindsay wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 27 May 2005 01:34:57 +0200:
>>
>>
>>>what does
>>>
>>>  texmfstart newtexexec --make --all
>>>
>>>do?
>>
>>Interesting...
>>It builds the formats (not engine aware in terms of where it puts
>>the .fmt files--at least it uses different switches compared to what I'm
>>used to), but (old)texexec did that too.
>>
>>What's interesting is that it doesn't insist on rebuilding the format on
>>a normal (--pdf) run. (And it's fast: does it buffer the terminal output?)
> 
> 
> Hello,
> I have the same problem on Linux, but I don't have texmfstart...
> Are there other solutions or is texmfstart now needed to run texexec?
> Cheers, Peter

you do have texmfstart, just copy texmfstart.rb to texmfstart in one of your bin 
paths (texmfstart is one of the core components of the context scripts, being 
the only way i can guarantee upward compatibility when drastic changes take 
place in the tds/distributions)

(there is a manual on the website)

Hans

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