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

[taco]

GG wrote:
> Hi Taco,
> 
> First of all, thank you for your work in the tex and metapost field !
> 
> I have with Texlive 2009 the following issue. I beg your pardon to 
> bother you with that !
> 
> I don't manage to have a live metapost session. Look at this :
> 
> $ mpost -mem=mpost
> This is MetaPost, version 1.208 (kpathsea version 5.0.0)
> **

Type a single backslash here, followed by enter. Or put
a backslash (suitably escaped for your shell) at then end
of the command line, like this:

   $ mpost \\

Best wishes,
Taco