tech-pkg: Re: teTeX and TeXfamily (pkg/13446)

Subject: Re: teTeX and TeXfamily (pkg/13446)
To: SUNAGAWA Keiki <Keiki_SUNAGAWA@yokogawa.co.jp>
From: Naoto Shimazaki <igy@arhc.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/14/2001 21:46:46

> I don't know why teTeX's latex is okay and texfamily's is not.
I found it.
In teTeX, format file are generated like this way.
	tex -ini -fmt=latex -progname=latex latex.ini
 ^^^
It formats latex.ini instead of latex.ltx. whole content in
latex.ini is here
% Thomas Esser, 1998. public domain.
\scrollmode
\input latex.ltx
\endinput
yes, inserting \scrollmode before logical timer bomb is the
solution. :-)
The shortest (I think) work around is insert \scrollmode
to latex.ltx like below. '1 year old' error will never
stop installation although '\ifnum\count@>99' becomes true!
--- latex.ltx.orig Fri Sep 14 21:39:30 2001
+++ latex.ltx Fri Sep 14 21:39:16 2001
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
 \errmessage
 {LaTeX must be made using an initex with no format preloaded}
 \fi
+\scrollmode
 \catcode`\{=1
 \catcode`\}=2
 \catcode`\#=6
--
Naoto Shimazaki