Tuesday, May 20, 2003 Sebastian Rooks wrote: SR> Hi Giuseppe, SR> Do you have any news for the hash-size limit in MikteX ? SR> There were some update recently but it still doesn't compile my files SR> (see previous mails 2003-04-08). SR> I tried to install TeXlive, and the resulting installation was not very SR> "clean". But my files were compiled. SR> As I should finish to write my thesis in roughtly two months from now, SR> do you think I should forget MikTeX and go on with TeXlive ? SR> Thanks a lot, Erm. No lack, I'm afraid. FWIW, here's the help list from latest MiKTeX: c:\TEMP>tex --help Usage: tex [OPTION...] [COMMAND...] -alias=APP Pretend to be APP. This affects both the format used and the search path. -aux-directory=DIR Define the directory for auxiliary files. -buf-size=N Set buf_size to N. -c-style-errors Print file:line:error style messages. -enable-write18 Enable the \write18 construct. -error-line=N Set error_line to N. -font-max=N Set font_max to N. -font-mem-size=N Set font_mem_size to N. -half-error-line=N Set half_error_line to N. -halt-on-error Stop after the first error. -help Show this help screen and exit. -hhelp Show the manual page. -include-directory=DIR Prepend DIR to the input search path. -initialize Be the INI variant of the program. This is implicitly true if the program name is ini*. -interaction=MODE Set the interaction mode; MODE must be one of: batchmode, nonstopmode, scrollmode, errorstopmode. -job-name=NAME Set the job name and hence the name(s) of the output file(s). -job-time=FILE Set the job time. Take FILE's timestamp as the reference. -max-in-open=N Set max_in_open to N. -max-print-line=N Set max_print_line to N. -max-strings=N Set max_strings to N. -mem-bot=N Set mem_bot to N. -mem-max=N Set mem_max to N. -mem-min=N Set mem_min to N. -mem-top=N Set mem_top to N. -nest-size=N Set nest_size to N. -output-directory=DIR Define the directory for output files. -param-size=N Set param_size to N. -pool-size=N Set pool_size to N. -quiet Suppress all output (except errors). -save-size=N Set save_size to N. -src-specials Insert source specials in certain places of the DVI file. -stack-size=N Set stack_size to N. -string-vacancies=N Set string_vacancies to N. -tcx=TCXNAME Use the TCX file TCXNAME. -terminal=oem Use the DOS codepage for console output. -trace=OPTIONS Specify trace options. OPTIONS must be a comma-separated list of trace options. See the manual, for more information. -trie-op-size=N Set trie_op_size to N. -trie-size=N Set trie_size to N. -undump=NAME Use NAME instead of program name when loading internal tables. -version Print version info and exit. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta