[tex-live] Problem with TeX Live 2009's mpost + mfplain

[Scott Pakin]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Scott Pakin wrote:
>>     $ mpost -mem mfplain '\mode:=proof; prologues:=2; input cmr10'
>>
>> Any ideas what the problem is?  Is mpost 1.208 perhaps predefining
>> things that mpost 1.005 did not?
> 
> You need -mem=mfplain (note the equals sign). Sorry, I changed that
> for metapost 1.20x and when it was noticed that this is incompatible
> with 1.00x, it was too late to change the code in texlive.

Aha!  That does indeed solve the problem.

Thanks,
-- Scott