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-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label initex</title>
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-<h3>What&#8217;s happened to <i>initex</i>?</h3>
-<p/>In the beginning, (La)TeX was stretching the capacity of every
-system it was ported to, so there was a premium on reducing the size
-of executables. One way of doing this was to have a separate
-executable, <i>initex</i>, that had things in it that aren&#8217;t
-needed in ordinary document runs &#8212; notably <code>\</code><code>patterns</code> (which
-builds hyphenation tables), and <code>\</code><code>dump</code> (which writes out a format).
-<p/>On modern systems, the size of this code is insignificant in
-comparison to the memory available, and maintaining separate programs
-has been found sufficiently error-prone that free Unix-style system
-distributions have abolished <i>initex</i> and its friends and
-relations such as <i>inipdftex</i> in favour of a single
-executable (that is, just <i>tex</i> or <i>pdftex</i>) that
-will &#8220;do what <i>initex</i> (or whatever) used to do&#8221; if it
-detects the command option &#8220;<code>-ini</code>&#8221;.
-<p/>The change happened with the advent of teTeX version
-3.0, which appeared at the beginning of 2005. At that time,
-TeX Live was following teTeX, so that year&#8217;s TeX Live
-distribution would also have dropped <i>initex</i>.
-<p/>It would appear that the equation is somewhat different for the
-MiKTeX developers, since that system continues to offer an
-<i>initex</i> executable.
-
-<p/><p/><p/><p/><p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=initex">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=initex</a>
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