All, I just installed Miktex 2.2 and got this error message when trying to build Context format. Anyone else get this? What is the workaround? Creating cont-en.efmt... pdfetex.exe --ini --interaction=nonstopmode --halt-on-error --alias cont-en *F:/miktex/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex \dump ! You have to increase POOLSIZE. INITEXMF: pdfetex.exe failed on cont-en.tex I checked miktex.ini and found: ;; Maximum number of characters in strings, including all ;; error messages and help texts, and the names of all fonts and ;; control sequences; must exceed string_vacancies by the total ;; length of TeX's own strings, which is currently about 23000. pool_size=500000 Is this what I should increase? Or is there some other sinister thing that needs taking care of?