From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/13779
Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context
Subject: Re: Re: first attempt to run mp (system error)
  -- summary?
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 00:16:04 +0200
Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20031009001449.02bf4f60@server-1>
References: <000901c38ca6$8af7a0d0$0500a8c0@best>
 <m2vfr1c9y8.fsf@levana.de>
 <1065598042.4594.36.camel@PawCooLinux>
 <6.0.0.22.2.20031008094621.02a62ef0@server-1>
 <006f01c38dd9$92077dd0$0500a8c0@best>
 <m2he2jpfty.fsf@levana.de>
Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065652613 18449 80.91.224.253 (8 Oct 2003 22:36:53 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 22:36:53 +0000 (UTC)
Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Thu Oct 09 00:36:51 2003
Return-path: <ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl>
Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl)
	by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))
	id 1A7MvL-0003Xt-00
	for <gctc-ntg-context-518@gmane.org>; Thu, 09 Oct 2003 00:36:51 +0200
Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
	by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id 5A57B10B62; Thu,  9 Oct 2003 00:36:49 +0200 (MEST)
Original-Received: from mail.solcon.net (mail.solcon.net [212.45.33.5])
	by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B1210AFC
	for <ntg-context@ntg.nl>; Thu,  9 Oct 2003 00:30:51 +0200 (MEST)
Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85])
	by mail.solcon.net (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h98MUcn25920
	for <ntg-context@ntg.nl>; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 00:30:38 +0200
Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534)
	id E65B317B08; Thu,  9 Oct 2003 00:30:43 +0200 (CEST)
Original-Received: from laptop-3.wxs.nl (unknown [10.100.1.191])
	by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 220BA17AE5
	for <ntg-context@ntg.nl>; Wed,  8 Oct 2003 22:30:40 +0000 (UTC)
X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1
X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22
Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
In-Reply-To: <m2he2jpfty.fsf@levana.de>
Original-References: <000901c38ca6$8af7a0d0$0500a8c0@best>
 <m2vfr1c9y8.fsf@levana.de>
 <1065598042.4594.36.camel@PawCooLinux>
 <6.0.0.22.2.20031008094621.02a62ef0@server-1>
 <006f01c38dd9$92077dd0$0500a8c0@best>
 <m2he2jpfty.fsf@levana.de>
Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl
X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl
X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13
Precedence: bulk
List-Help: <mailto:ntg-context-request@ntg.nl?subject=help>
List-Post: <mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl>
List-Subscribe: <http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context>,
	<mailto:ntg-context-request@ntg.nl?subject=subscribe>
List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context.ntg.nl>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context>,
	<mailto:ntg-context-request@ntg.nl?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/>
Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:13779
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:13779

At 23:41 08/10/2003, you wrote:
>Hi again,
>
>...
>
> > Doesn't hurt. ...But wait -- I aks to be on the safe side: since I 
> remember,
> > I use common formats (and every other files in texmf tree) for linux and
> > windows. Is there ANY reason to generate nativ format for each operating
> > system? Is there any reason not to make common any other texmf
> > files?
>
>If you have the same system on both sides, I think you are safe. It
>looks as if web2c systems can share formats if the web2c version
>number is identical.

indeed and this is what makes tex live such a nice system

however, here i organize my binaries like

texmf-mswin
texmf-linux

etc because i often have more modern pdftex's on windows -)

Hans