[NTG-pdftex] no etex while dump

[Taco Hoekwater]

Pawel Jackowski wrote:
> 
>> It's the shell:
>>
>>  pdfetex -ini \*z.tex
>>
>> works :-)
> 
> 
> The same shell with the same command works fine WITHOUT espace on pdfTeX 
> 1.20a :(

Are you sure? Under bash, the behaviour of the pathname expansion can be
somewhat controlled by a variable called nullglob:

   [taco at glenlivet context]$ shopt -p nullglob
   shopt -u nullglob
   [taco at glenlivet context]$ shopt -s nullglob
   [taco at glenlivet context]$ echo *pdftex

   [taco at glenlivet context]$ shopt -u nullglob
   [taco at glenlivet context]$ echo *pdftex
   *pdftex

So perhaps that (or something like that) is what is causing the
difference?

Taco