4 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/etex.ini b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/etex.ini
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f8db7a942ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/etex.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+% Thomas Esser, 1998. public domain.
+\input etex.src
+\dump
+\endinput
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/pdfetex.ini b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/pdfetex.ini
index 56b3462bbf7..f88b7ac77b3 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/pdfetex.ini
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/pdfetex.ini
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 % Thomas Esser, 1998. public domain.
+% This is used for pdftex and pdfetex, which are now identical: both
+% with e-TeX extensions, both with pdf output.
 \input pdftexconfig.tex
 \input etex.src
 \input pdftexmagfix.tex
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/pdftex.ini b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/pdftex.ini
deleted file mode 100644
index bd788c28aed..00000000000
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/pdftex.ini
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-% Thomas Esser, 1998. public domain.
-\input pdftexconfig.tex
-\input plain
-\input pdftexmagfix.tex
-\dump
-\endinput
diff --git a/Master/texmf/fmtutil/format.pdftex.cnf b/Master/texmf/fmtutil/format.pdftex.cnf
index 2cb6871ee41..8e95d445c08 100644
--- a/Master/texmf/fmtutil/format.pdftex.cnf
+++ b/Master/texmf/fmtutil/format.pdftex.cnf
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------
 # $Id$
-# We use pdfetex.ini for all formats now, since pdftex always includes
-# the e-TeX extensions, and so we may as well always read etex.src.
-etex		pdftex	language.def	-translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini
+# The pdftex engine always includes the e-TeX extensions.
+etex		pdftex	language.def	-translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini
 pdfetex		pdftex	language.def	-translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini
 pdftex		pdftex	-		-translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini