[texhax] User defined FMT file usage in miktex2.9

[Joseph Wright]

On 02/04/2014 10:36, sangeetha.m wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We are planned to move YANDY to MikTeX for one of our projects. In YANDY we are using our own .fmt for TeX file compilation using the below command
> 
> "c:\yandy\yandytex\tex.bat" +xxx  sample.tex     xxx is fmt name(xxx.fmt)
> 
> I have been using MiKTeX 2.9 and I could not able to run with this xxx.fmt in miktex. How it can be done.?
> 
> Can anyone please help me to sort out this issue.
> 
> Regards,
> Sangeetha

The standard format for both MiKTeX and TeX Live is '&format'. As shells
tend to assign special mean to '&', it normally has to be quoted:

  tex "&xxx" sample.tex

-- 
Joseph Wright