On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:50:13PM +0200, Guy Rutenberg wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I upgraded to tetex 3.0 (I'm using gentoo) through portage. Now when i try
> to run 'pdfelatex' on files it fails immediately and outputs:
> 
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdfelatex.fmt
> fmtutil: no info for format `pdfelatex'.
> I can't find the format file `pdfelatex.fmt'!
> 

Those .fmt files are basically core dums of TeX with the relevant macros
in memory. Not unlike SmallTalk. See 'info web2c' or:
http://www.nada.kth.se/cgi-bin/info?(web2c.info)Memory%20dumps

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