[NTG-pdftex] [bug] \pdfmapfile broken?

[Hartmut Henkel]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Martin Schr=F6der wrote:

> > pdftex -ini
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.12b-beta-20040309 (Web2C 7.5.2) (INIT=
EX)
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
> **\pdfoutput=3D1
> output format initialized to DVI
>
> *\pdfmapfile{pdftex.map}
> ! Missing { inserted.
> <to be read again>
>                    {
> <*> \pdfmapfile{
>                 pdftex.map}
> ?

In -ini mode, certain things have no catcode yet. Do:

\pdfoutput=3D1
\catcode`\{=3D1
\catcode`\}=3D2
\pdfmapfile{pdftex.map} % not needed, default anyway

Regards, Hartmut