[NTG-context] texversion

[Hans Hagen]

Hans van der Meer wrote:

> When running the command "texversion" it used to give nice and clean  
> compact output.
>
>          TeXVersion 0.1 / Taco Hoekwater 2004
>
>                texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
>                texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004
>                    tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
>              cont-en : ver: 2006.01.12 10:38  fmt: 2006.1.14  mes:  
> english
>                cont-nl : ver: 2006.01.12 10:38  fmt: 2006.1.14  mes:  
> dutch
>
> Now it spits out a lot of material, ending with:
>
>> % \readlocfile{cont-def.tex}
>> %   {\writestatus{loading}{adding extensions from cont-def}}
>> %   {}
>>
>> %D Now dumping the format is all that's left to be done.
>>
>> \errorstopmode \dump
>>
>> \endinput
>
>
> Has something changed?

indeed, the recently implemented format version check

> I preferred the previous behaviour, i.e. quit reporting when called  
> without options.

taco's code was integrated in texexec (not so long after he posted it); 
so you can consider texversion obsolete

 >texexec --version

 TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005

               texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
               texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004
                   tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.30.3-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.5)
               context : ver: 2006.01.13 20:20
               cont-en : ver: 2006.01.13 20:20  fmt: 2006.1.15  mes: english
               cont-cz : ver: 2006.01.13 12:07  fmt: 2006.1.13  mes: czech
               cont-de : ver: 2006.01.13 12:07  fmt: 2006.1.13  mes: german
               cont-fr : ver: 2006.01.13 12:07  fmt: 2006.1.13  mes: french
               cont-it : ver: 2006.01.13 12:07  fmt: 2006.1.13  mes: italian
               cont-nl : ver: 2006.01.13 20:20  fmt: 2006.1.15  mes: dutch
               cont-ro : ver: 2006.01.13 12:07  fmt: 2006.1.13  mes: 
romanian
               cont-uk : ver: 2006.01.13 12:07  fmt: 2006.1.13  mes: 
romanian

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