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$Id$
Written 2004, Karl Berry.  Public domain.

These are some basic tests for TeX Live being at all functional.
They are not being run by any cron job, yet.

The general idea is to have a "knowngood" dvi or pdf file, and compare
it against the result of running with the current code.

I wrote the DVI-comparing (which uses dvitype) script in Perl so it
would have a chance of running under Windows.  I don't know if it really
does.  Ditto the PDF-comparing script (which uses pdftoppm from the xpdf
distribution).

The numbers in the directory names are just an arbitrary prioritizing
scheme, so simpler tests can be run before more complex ones.  Several
tests can have the same priority number.

I don't intend to try to make this any kind of exhaustive testing, we're
just trying to make sure the most obvious things aren't broken.  (Of
course, the more the merrier.)  The only additional tests I plan to add
myself are:
  8-bit input (all common languages)
  pdfconcat