[XeTeX] xelatex problem after new 2003 setup of GWTeX

[Jon Breitenbucher]

On Dec 16, 2004, at 6:17 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 16 déc. 04, à 12:04, Adam Lindsay a écrit :
>
>> Bruno Voisin said this at Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:21:17 +0100:
>>
>>> Gerben made changes in some memory
>>> parameters in /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf on 
>>> November
>>> 28, and it's possible the bug appears as a consequence of these
>>> changes.
>>
>> Gerben's changes may be *sufficient* to encounter the bug, but they 
>> are
>> by no means *necessary*. I was running into this bug in early XeTeX 
>> over
>> my TeXLive setup, before I switched to gwTeX.
>
> What I noticed is that with a TL2004 setup corresponding to the 
> i-Package of 16 November, XeTeX 0.88 was working fine. A couple of 
> hours later, after reinstalling completely (ie erase /usr/local/teTeX/ 
> then reinstall) TL2004 from the latest i-Package, then XeTeX 0.88, I 
> could no longer typeset exactly the same file and obtained the 
> [][][]... error instead.
>
> Bruno Voisin
>

This is exactly what happened to me about a week or two ago. So is it 
something about the TL2004 setup?
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