[tex-live] initex '&FORMAT' with whizzytex

[Karl Berry]

Hi Stefano,

    Any help on how one could simulate the "old" behaviour so 
    that I can feed the whizzytex script with a initex wrapper it can use, 
    is appreciated.

If you make initex a symlink to pdfetex, in the TL bin directory, it
should work.  As in:
cd /wherever/tl/bin/i386-linux
ln -s pdfetex initex

If that's inconvenient, you could make an initex shell script (and put
it anywhere):

#!/bin/sh
exec /wherever/tl/bin/i386-linux/pdfetex -ini "$@"

I just tried both of these and got a dummy.fmt from a dummy.tex
containing the one line "\dump".

Why does it need a format, anyway?  Are there that many macros?  Just curious.

Hope this helps ...

karl