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Re: Does anybody know how to edit web2c change files?



On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 08:45 +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Strange - I tried and got funny results, e.g. after changing
> 
> #define BANNER "This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-PDFTEX-VERSION-ETEX-VERSION"
> 
> to 
> 
> #define BANNER "This is not pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-PDFTEX-VERSION-ETEX-VERSION"
> 
> it printed "not pdfeTeX..." instead of "This is pdfeTeX..."

This is indeed odd, since it gets into the binary correctly:

$ strings pdfetex | grep 'not pdf'
This is not pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2
$ ./pdfetex --version       
not pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
[...]

cheerio
ralf



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