4 files changed, 22 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/mptopdf.man1.pdf b/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/mptopdf.man1.pdf
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diff --git a/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/pstopdf.man1.pdf b/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/pstopdf.man1.pdf
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diff --git a/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/tlmgr.1 b/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/tlmgr.1
index 88372649094..ba1716ce234 100644
--- a/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/tlmgr.1
+++ b/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/tlmgr.1
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
 .\" ========================================================================
 .\"
 .IX Title "TLMGR 1"
-.TH TLMGR 1 "2010-06-05" "perl v5.10.1" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
+.TH TLMGR 1 "2010-06-06" "perl v5.10.1" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
 .\" For nroff, turn off justification.  Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
 .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
 .if n .ad l
@@ -648,28 +648,34 @@ Or you can use:
 The \f(CW\*(C`\-\-\*(C'\fR avoids having the \f(CW\*(C`\-1\*(C'\fR treated as an option.  (For most
 programs, \f(CW\*(C`\-\-\*(C'\fR stops parsing for arguments at the point where it
 appears; this is a general feature of option parsing.)
-.SS "conf [texmf|tlmgr [key [value]]]"
+.SS "conf [texmf|tlmgr [\fIkey\fP [\fIvalue\fP]]]"
 .IX Subsection "conf [texmf|tlmgr [key [value]]]"
-With only the \f(CW\*(C`conf\*(C'\fR given show general configuration information for 
-TeX Live, including active configuration files, path settings, and more.
-.PP
-This option to \f(CW\*(C`tlmgr\*(C'\fR mimics the \f(CW\*(C`texconfig conf\*(C'\fR call, but works on
-all supported platforms.
+With only the \f(CW\*(C`conf\*(C'\fR, show general configuration information for TeX
+Live, including active configuration files, path settings, and more.
+This is like the \f(CW\*(C`texconfig conf\*(C'\fR call, but works on all supported
+platforms.
 .PP
 With either \f(CW\*(C`texmf\*(C'\fR or \f(CW\*(C`tlmgr\*(C'\fR given in addition, shows all key/value
-pairs (i.e., all settings) as saved in \f(CW\*(C`ROOT/texmf.cnf\*(C'\fR and the tlmgr
+pairs (i.e., all settings) as saved in \f(CW\*(C`ROOT/texmf.cnf\*(C'\fR or the tlmgr
 configuration file (see below), respectively.
 .PP
-If \f(CW\*(C`key\*(C'\fR is given in addition, shows the value of that given \f(CW\*(C`key\*(C'\fR in
-the respective file.
+If \fIkey\fR is given in addition, shows the value of only that given
+\&\fIkey\fR in the respective file.
+.PP
+If \fIvalue\fR is given in addition, \fIkey\fR is set to \fIvalue\fR in the 
+respective file.  \fINo error checking is done!\fR
+.PP
+Practical application: if the execution of (some or all) system commands
+via \f(CW\*(C`\ewrite18\*(C'\fR was left enabled during installation, you can disable
+it afterwards:
 .PP
-If \f(CW\*(C`value\*(C'\fR is given in addition, \f(CW\*(C`key\*(C'\fR is set to \f(CW\*(C`value\*(C'\fR in the 
-respective file.
+.Vb 1
+\&  tlmgr conf texmf shell_escape 0
+.Ve
 .PP
-\&\fB\s-1WARNING:\s0\fR Setting arbitrary keys in the tlmgr config file (i.e., with
-\&\f(CW\*(C`tlmgr conf tlmgr \f(CIkey\f(CW \f(CIvalue\f(CW\*(C'\fR is \fInot\fR a good idea as tlmgr does
-only understand a limited number of options with specific values, and this
-function does \fInot\fR check for these properties.
+\&\fB\s-1WARNING:\s0\fR The general facility is here, but tinkering with settings in
+this way is very strongly discouraged.  Again, no error checking is
+done, so any sort of breakage is possible.
 .SS "paper"
 .IX Subsection "paper"
 .IP "\fBpaper [a4|letter]\fR" 4
diff --git a/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/tlmgr.man1.pdf b/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/tlmgr.man1.pdf
index 43be919dbf6..61e720362a1 100644
--- a/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/tlmgr.man1.pdf
+++ b/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/tlmgr.man1.pdf