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.
>