Hmm, interesting. I used "texconfig init". No, there seems to be no  
change if I rename it.

Thanks,
David

On Jan 17, 2006, at 2:15 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

> No, that's not correct, it's not Gerben's distribution that does  
> that. Which commands do you use to generate the formats? The  
> directory you describe very likely shouldn't be there, and you can  
> probably just delete it. Try renaming it to something else and see  
> if that solves your problem.
>
> HTH
>
> Thomas
>
> On Jan 17, 2006, at 12:18 AM, David Wooten wrote:
>
>> I've rested a couple of days and found that, in fact, Gerben's  
>> distribution generates the new fmt files in ~/Library/texmf/web2c.  
>> Still, none of my attempts have produced changes in the allocated  
>> memory.