X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t nil] ["537" "Thu" "27" "January" "1994" "07:51:31" "+0100" "Frank Mittelbach" "MITTELBACH@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de" "<199401270653.AA26289@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de>" "15" "What to do with preload.xpt" "^Date:" nil nil "1" "1994012706:51:31" "What to do with preload.xpt" (number " " mark " E Frank Mittelbach Jan 27 15/537 " thread-indent "\"What to do with preload.xpt\"\n") nil]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA10695; Thu, 27 Jan 94 07:53:38 +0100 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA01152; Thu, 27 Jan 94 07:53:36 +0100 Received: from tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de with SMTP id AA26289 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4(mail.m4[1.12]) for <@MAIL.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE:Schoepf@SC.ZIB-BERLIN.DE>); Thu, 27 Jan 1994 07:53:33 +0100 Message-Id: <199401270653.AA26289@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de> Received: from TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE by tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 9386; Thu, 27 Jan 94 07:53:34 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin MAILER@DHDURZ1) by TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 9385; Thu, 27 Jan 1994 07:53:34 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin LISTSERV@DHDURZ1) by VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 4612; Thu, 27 Jan 1994 07:53:14 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 07:51:31 +0100 From: Frank Mittelbach Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: What to do with preload.xpt Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1320 > How do you use preload.dtx to generate preload files > such as cmpreloa.xii, dcpreloa.xpt etc? > > I understand from the preload.dtx documentation that once you've generated > this file you copy it to preload.cfg and then make a new format. Dean, I thought I had answered your original question. Yes it is the right way to do it and in case it doesn't work we have made some blunder. However, you don't gain much these days by preloading on nearly every machine (even on my old atari where unpacking of 2e takes three hours) Frank