[tex-live] apparent bug in detex

[Victor Ivrii]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Adam R. Maxwell <amaxwell at mac.com> wrote:
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> On Nov 3, 2010, at 03:35 , Victor Ivrii wrote:
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>> My understanding is that the problem (painfully slow performance of
>> pdftotext and may be some other executables) is endemic to MacOSX arch
>> ppc
>
> It's not.  We used to ship it as part of BibDesk, and it was fast
> on my 500 MHz G3 (a PowerPC).
>
>

It was not my complain - I simply reproduced it mistakenly thinking
that it was a part of TL distribution. And I just checked on my office
G4: fast


Victor


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