Script started on Thu May 25 07:21:22 2006
$ tex \\end
This is TeXk, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.4)
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No pages of output.
Transcript written on texput.log.
$ etex \\end
This is e-TeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
 file:line:error style messages enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
---! /home/ralf/.texmf/var/web2c/etex.fmt was written by pdfetex
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
$ pdfetex \\end
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
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entering extended mode
No pages of output.
Transcript written on texput.log.
$ file ~/.texmf/var/web2c/etex.fmt
/home/ralf/.texmf/var/web2c/etex.fmt: data
$ mv ~/.texmf/var/web2c/etex.fmt ~/.texmf/var/web2c/etex.fmt-broken
$ etex \\end
This is e-TeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
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 %&-line parsing enabled.
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt etex.fmt
fmtutil: running `pdfetex -ini   -jobname=etex -progname=etex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini' ...
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX)
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 (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/cp227.tcx)
entering extended mode
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/config/etex.ini
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/etex/etex.src
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex Preloading the plain format: codes,
registers, parameters, fonts, more fonts, macros, math definitions,
output routines, hyphenation (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex
[skipping from \patterns to end-of-file...]))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/etex/etexdefs.lib Skipping module "grouptypes";
Loading module "interactionmodes"; Skipping module "nodetypes";
Skipping module "iftypes";) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/config/language.def
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex))
Augmenting the Plain TeX definitions: \tracingall;
Adding new e-TeX definitions: \eTeX, \loggingall, \tracingnone,
register allocation; extended register allocation; 
Recycling: \addlanguage, \@nswer (not defined), \@sk, \b@dresponsetrue,
\b@dresponsefalse, \ch@ckforyn, \mayber@cycle, \et@xabort, \et@xbuf,
\et@xfmtsrc, \et@xfilehdr, \et@xinf, \et@xpatterns, \l@ngdefnfile, \n@xt,
\p@rse (not defined), \pr@mpt (not defined), \pr@mptloop (not defined),
\forcer@cycle, \usef@llback, \usef@llbacktrue, \usef@llbackfalse, 
Retaining: \et@xerr, \et@xinput, \et@xlibhdr, \et@xmsg, \et@xtoks, \et@xwarn,
\et@xl@@d, \et@xl@ad, \et@xload, \et@xlang, \et@xhash, \eTeX, \etexhdrchk,
\etexstatus, \module, \uselanguage, \r@tain, \r@cycle,) )
Beginning to dump on file etex.fmt
 (format=etex 2006.5.25)
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7953 memory locations dumped; current usage is 197&7289
1176 multiletter control sequences
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\font\preloaded=manfnt
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14 hyphenation exceptions
Hyphenation trie of length 6075 has 181 ops out of 35111
  181 for language 0
No pages of output.
Transcript written on etex.log.
fmtutil: /home/ralf/.texmf/var/web2c/etex.fmt installed.
---! /home/ralf/.texmf/var/web2c/etex.fmt was written by pdfetex
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
$ etex \\end
This is e-TeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
 file:line:error style messages enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
---! /home/ralf/.texmf/var/web2c/etex.fmt was written by pdfetex
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
$ exit

Script done on Thu May 25 07:22:19 2006