[tlbuild] pdftex bug in luatex?

[Reinhard Kotucha]

Joachim Schrod writes:
 > Reinhard Kotucha writes:

 > > So far so good.  In order to find out whether this little test is
 > > sufficient to find out whether xindy and xindy.mem are consistent, I
 > > removed a byte from xindy.mem and tried again.  No error message.
 > > Xindy didn't recognize that xindy.mem was broken. 
 > 
 > Do you really expect that? That's just like you can remove a byte from
 > an .fmt file and TeX will most often not complain either (if you
 > didn't remove some magic number or damage some pointer structure). You
 > can remove a byte from many compiled programs or object files and the
 > loader will not complain.

Hi Joachim,
I always thought that tex does some more checks than checking the
version number before it says it's stymied.  But you are right, it
doesn't.  Sorry for the noise.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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