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In article <423@wn2.sci.kun.nl> eykhout@wn2.sci.kun.nl (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
>Next one: it does not have Initex. They claim not to need it,
>'as you can call "dump" at anything' (or some such blurb),
>but this means that you can't load other hyphenation patterns
>(note: I'm Dutch).
>
>Victor.


If you call BlueSky and ask for a TeX with no preloaded format
they will probably say (if you are a registered user) 
that if you send them a disk they will send you a TeX with no format
loaded in. (That is what they told me)
They also said that TeXtures is initex, not virtex, so it should build
hyphenation patterns just fine. (I have not tried this, though)
They will also send you the program to take MetaFont output and convert
it to mac-font format for use with TeXtures.

Todd Olson