[metapost] metapost 1.211 and *.mem files

[Hans Hagen]

On 19-5-2011 7:49, Joe Neeman wrote:
> Consider the attached mf2pt1.mp file. In metapost 1.208, I can do:
>
> mpost -progname=mpost -ini mf2pt1.mp -progname=mpost \\dump
> mpost -mem=mf2pt1 -progname=mpost '\mode:=localfont; mag:=100; bpppix 0.02;'
>
> and mpost exits without an error. If I try the same two commands in metapost
> 1.211, however, I get the following output from the second command:
>
> This is MetaPost, version 1.211 (TeX Live 2010/Arch Linux) (kpathsea version
> 6.0.0)
>>> bpppix0.02
> ! Isolated expression.
> <to be read again>
>                     ;
> <*>  \mode:=localfont; mag:=100; bpppix 0.02;

best find out what bppix is supposed to be, a variable or a macro; maybe 
try

bpppix := 0.02 ;

Hans

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