[tex-live] initex '&FORMAT' with whizzytex

Olaf Weber olaf at infovore.xs4all.nl
Fri Oct 22 11:36:18 CEST 2004


Stefano Lodi writes:

> There must be something terribly wrong with my installations (I tried
> TeXLive on two different systems, user the same iso file for both
> installations).  Here's what I get:

> /usr/local/TeXLive/bin/i386-linux> ./pdfetex '&latex'
> This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.2)
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>  (/usr/local/TeXLive/texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

This almost certainly means pdfetex is not the engine for which the
latex format was created (it will be in the upcoming TeX-live).  You
may want to verify to which engine the latex symlink points, and use
that one.

-- 
Olaf Weber

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