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Bug#338608: marked as done (please remove the "initex" from TeXs man page)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #338608,
regarding please remove the "initex" from TeXs man page
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Package: tetex-bin
Version: 3.0-10.1
Severity: wishlist

The man page page of TeX still refers to a program called initex,
which has been removed from teTeX (was a only link to /usr/bin/tex
anyway). Please clean up the man page.

H.
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On 11.11.05 Atsuhito Kohda (kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp) wrote:

Hi Atsuhito,

> From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
> Subject: Bug#338608: please remove the "initex" from TeXs man page
> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:01:11 +0100
> 
> > The man page page of TeX still refers to a program called initex,
> > which has been removed from teTeX (was a only link to /usr/bin/tex
> > anyway). Please clean up the man page.
> 
> No, I don't think so.  Okay, let's see what manual of TeX
> said to us;
> 
>        This version of TeX looks at its command line to see what name  it  was
>        called  under.  If they exist, then both initex and virtex are symbolic
>        links to the tex executable.  When called as initex (or when  the  -ini
>        option  is given) it can be used to precompile macros into a .fmt file.
> 
> The above statement is perfectly true whether or not teTeX 
> (or we) provides a symbolic link initex to tex.  On the contrary,
> I think if manual of TeX doesn't refer to this feature of TeX, 
> then it is certainly the gave bug of manual page.
> 
OK, closing.

H.
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