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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Luatex installation
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:21:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47754CCA.9020803@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FDAA3345-BD1D-4E47-BA2C-2D9A2053F34E@science.uva.nl>

Hans van der Meer wrote:
> I have read the instructions for installing luatex on MacOSX so  
> clearly spelt out by Thomas Schmitz, but they leave a question open.
> Thomas advises to set TEXMFCACHE=/tmp with the argument that it then  
> is cleared each time the computer is restarted.
> What is unclear to me if this means that on each restart some explicit  
> reinitialzation has to be done or are the data in TEXMFCACHE suitable  
> candidates for thrashing at all times?

clearing the cache each time is a waste of time

mtxrun --script cache

can be used to remove redundant files or clear the cache

Hans

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      reply	other threads:[~2007-12-28 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-28 16:24 Hans van der Meer
2007-12-28 19:21 ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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