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-Installation
-************
-
-The simplest way to install Eplain is simply to install the file
-`eplain.tex' in a directory where TeX will find it. What that
-directory is obviously depends on your operating system and TeX
-installation. I personally install `eplain.tex' in a directory
-`/usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/plain'.
-
- If you want, you can also create a format (`.fmt') file for Eplain,
-which will eliminate the time spent reading the macro source file with
-`\input'. You do this by issuing a sequence of Unix commands something
-like this:
-
- prompt$ touch eplain.aux
- prompt$ initex
- This is TeX, ...
- **&plain eplain
- (eplain.tex)
- *\dump
- ... MESSAGES ...
-
-You must make sure that `eplain.aux' exists _before_ you run `initex';
-otherwise, warning messages about undefined labels will never be issued.
-
- You then have to install the resulting `eplain.fmt' in some system
-directory or set an environment variable to tell TeX how to find it. I
-install the format files in `/usr/local/lib/texmf/ini'; the environment
-variable for the Web2C port of TeX to Unix is `TEXFORMATS'.
-
- Some implementations of TeX (including Web2C) use the name by which
-TeX is invoked to determine what format to read. For them, you should
-make a link to the `virtex' program named `etex', and then install the
-format file with the name `etex.fmt'. This lets users invoke TeX as
-`etex' and get the format file read automatically, without having to
-say `&eplain'.
-
- For convenience, the file `etex.tex' in the distribution directory
-does `\input eplain' and then `\dump', so that if you replace `eplain'
-with `etex' in the example above, the format file will end up with the
-right name.
-
- The `install' target in the `Makefile' does all this properly for
-Unix systems and Web2C. You may have to change the pathnames.
-
- Under emtex, `eaj@acpub.duke.edu' says that
-
- tex386 -i ^&plain eplain \dump
-
-produces a format file.
-