[pdftex] Happy Birthday pdfTeX!

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Sun Mar 17 12:11:00 CET 2002


At 07:40 PM 3/15/2002 +0100, Thierry Bouche wrote:
>Le vendredi 15 mars 2002, à 14:42:04, Sebastian Rahtz écrivit :
>
>SR> On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 01:11:09PM +0100, Martin Schr?der wrote:
> >> >From Thanh's changelog:
> >> __________
> >> 1997/03/15 - Han The Thanh
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~
> >>   * released pdftex-0.1
> >>   * renamed tex2pdf --> pdftex
> >>
> >> Which means today is pdfTeX's fifth birthday!
>
>SR> ah, I remember the good old days when it was tex2pdf.....
>
>
>And said: ``This can't happen!" when compiling something like
>\input story\bye

i suppose that was because tex2pdf interpreted the story and since thanh 
uses fairy tails for testing, i assume that message was somehow valid -)

Hans


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