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Hartmut Henkel wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Pawel Jackowski wrote:
On 1.30-rc2 I made the following z.tex file:
\catcode`\{=1 \catcode`\}=2 \edef\z{\the\eTeXversion} \dump
Then I hit
pdfetex -ini *z.tex
It's the shell:
pdfetex -ini \*z.tex
works :-)
ah .. clever .. typical an 'error' one can spend hours to uncover; looks like a design flaw to choose '*' for this. how about an --etex switch that acts as synonym for this * Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------