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From: dhosek@gauss.claremont.edu (Don Hosek)
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Subject: Re: initex with emTeX?
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.223644.1@gauss.claremont.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 06:36:44 GMT
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In article <62072@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) writes:
> I checked the emTeX distribution disks that there is no initex going with
> it. If I use sb30tex's initex and its formats and so on, is there a
> problem in compatibility?

Yes.

Certain TeX implementations do not have a separate executable for
IniTeX. These include PCTeX, emTeX and PD VMS TeX. Instead a
command line switch is used to indicate that IniTeX is being
used. To generate plain.fmt, for example, the possible commands
are:

PCTeX:     TEX plain "\dump" /i
emTeX:     TEX /i plain \dump
VMSTeX:    TEX/INIT/NOFORMAT "plain \dump" (although one usually
                      sets INITEX :== TEX/INIT/NOFORMAT)

-dh

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