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-@c This is part of the Eplain manual. Public domain.
-
-@node Installation
-@chapter Installation
-
-@cindex Eplain, installing
-@ @cindex installation
-The simplest way to install Eplain is simply to install the file
-@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 @file{eplain.tex} in
-a directory @file{/usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/plain}.
-
-If you want, you can also create a format (@file{.fmt})
-@pindex .fmt @r{file}
-@cindex format file
-file for Eplain, which will eliminate the time spent reading the macro
-source file with @code{\input}. You do this by issuing a sequence of
-Unix commands something like this:
-
-@example
-prompt$ touch eplain.aux
-prompt$ initex
-This is TeX, ...
-**&plain eplain
-(eplain.tex)
-*\dump
-... @var{messages} ...
-@end example
-
-@pindex eplain.aux
-@cindex undefined labels, warnings about
-@noindent You must make sure that @file{eplain.aux} exists @emph{before} you
-run @file{initex}; otherwise, warning messages about undefined labels
-will never be issued.
-
-You then have to install the resulting @file{eplain.fmt} in some system
-directory or set an environment variable to tell @TeX{} how to find it.
-I install the format files in @file{/usr/local/lib/texmf/ini}; the
-environment variable for the Web2C port of @TeX{} to Unix is
-@code{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 @file{virtex} program named @file{etex}, and
-then install the format file with the name @file{etex.fmt}. This lets
-users invoke @TeX{} as @file{etex} and get the format file read
-automatically, without having to say @samp{&eplain}.
-
-For convenience, the file @file{etex.tex} in the distribution directory
-does @code{\input eplain} and then @code{\dump}, so that if you replace
-@samp{eplain} with @samp{etex} in the example above, the format file
-will end up with the right name.
-
-The @code{install} target in the @file{Makefile} does all this properly
-for Unix systems and Web2C. You may have to change the pathnames.
-
-@cindex emtex, installation under
-Under emtex, @samp{eaj@@acpub.duke.edu} says that
-
-@example
-tex386 -i ^&plain eplain \dump
-@end example
-
-@noindent produces a format file.