At 20:18 20/03/2004, you wrote:
What is the difference between pdfinitex and pdftex --ini?
hahe@hahepc1:~$ pdfinitex y This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.20a-rc1-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.2) %&-line parsing enabled. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdfinitex.efmt fmtutil: no info for format `pdfinitex'. I can't find the format file `pdfinitex.efmt'!
hahe@hahepc1:~$ pdftex --ini y This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.20a-rc1-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.2) (INITEX) %&-line parsing enabled. output format initialized to DVI (./y.tex ! Missing { inserted. <to be read again> { l.1 \hbox{ abc} ?
Shouldn't the first behave as the second?
i'd think so, maybe some progname confusion, i.e. they have different 'names' unless (in windows:) we would have: pdfinitex.bat contains: @echo off texmfstart texexec.pl %* Hans