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

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hi Scott,

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.

Best wishes,
Taco