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 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]