[OS X TeX] New world record!

[Jonathan Kew]

On 26 Feb 2005, at 9:51 am, Jérôme Laurens wrote:

> My HD was surprisingly full at startup today.
> After some investigation, it appears that I played too much with the 
> arabic example of the xetex distribution.
> The result was "simply" a 47.3 Gb Arabic.log file...
>

Ouch!

Could it be that you ran into the xetex infinite-[][][][]... bug? If 
so, updating to the latest release should fix this.

If that wasn't it, I'd appreciate knowing what else caused it to run 
away so badly.

JK
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