[tex-live] versions of pdftex and pdfetex

Martin Schroeder ms@artcom-gmbh.de
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:00:44 +0200


On 2002-04-16 17:16:55 +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> [spqr]/tmp:pdfetex
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7)
> **

But if you ask pdfetex for it's version, you will get
> bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/pdfetex --version
pdfeTeX (Web2C 7.3.7) 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20010806-2.1

source.development/TeX/texk/web2c/pdfetexdir/pdfetexextra.h still
has
#define BANNER "This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20010806-2.1"

> so can anyone else reproduce Martin's problem?

It's just that there's more than one place in pdf(e)tex to define
the version :-(

Best regards
        Martin
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