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fmtutil(8)		      teTeX		       fmtutil(8)

NAME
       fmtutil - utility for maintaining TeX format files

SYNOPSIS
       fmtutil [ OPTION... ]  COMMAND

DESCRIPTION
       fmtutil	is  used to create or recreate format and hyphen-
       ation files or show information about format files.

       COMMAND is one of:

       --all  recreate all format files

       --byfmt formatname
	      (re)create the format for format formatname

       --byhyphen hyphenfile
	      (re)create formats that depend on	 the  hyphenation
	      file hyphenfile

       --help print a summary of commands and options

       --missing
	      create any missing format files

       --showhyphen formatname
	      print the name of the hyphenation file for the for-
	      mat formatname

OPTIONS
       --cnffile file
	      specify the configuration file fmtutil should use

       --dolinks
	      (not implemented, just for compatibility)

       --fmtdir directory
	      set the destination directory for format files gen-
	      erated by fmtutil to directory

       --force
	      (not implemented, just for compatibility)

       --quiet
	      (not implemented, just for compatibility)

       --test (not implemented, just for compatibility)

FILES
       fmtutil.cnf
	      default configuration file

SEE ALSO
       kpsewhich(1)

       Web page: <http://tug.cs.umb.edu/tetex/>

BUGS
       None  known,  but report any bugs found to <tetex@dbs.uni-
       hannover.de> (mailing list).

AUTHOR
       fmtutil	was  written  by  Thomas  Esser	 <te@dbs.uni-han-
       nover.de> and is Copyright  1998 Thomas Esser.

       This   manual   page   was   written   by   C.M.	 Connelly
       <c@eskimo.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.	  It  may
       be  used	 by  other  distributions  without contacting the
       author.	Any mistakes or omissions in the manual page  are
       my  fault;  inquiries  about or corrections to this manual
       page should be directed to me  (and  not	 to  the  primary
       author).

teTeX			   August 2000		       fmtutil(8)

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