1fmtutil(8)                          TeXLive                         fmtutil(8)
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NAME

6       fmtutil - utility for maintaining TeX format files
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8       fmtutil-sys - utility for maintaining TeX format files system-wide
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SYNOPSIS

11       fmtutil [ OPTION... ]  COMMAND
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13       fmtutil-sys [ OPTION... ]  COMMAND
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DESCRIPTION

16       fmtutil  is  used to create or recreate format and hyphenation files or
17       show information about format files.
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19       COMMAND is one of:
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21       --all  recreate all format files
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23       --byfmt formatname
24              (re)create the format for format formatname
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27              (re)create formats that depend on the hyphenation  file  hyphen‐
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30       --help print a summary of commands and options
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OPTIONS

39       --cnffile file
40              specify the configuration file fmtutil should use
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42       --dolinks
43              (not implemented, just for compatibility)
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45       --fmtdir directory
46              set  the  destination  directory  for  format files generated by
47              fmtutil to directory
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53              (not implemented, just for compatibility)
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55       --test (not implemented, just for compatibility)
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FILES

58       fmtutil.cnf
59              default configuration file
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SEE ALSO

62       kpsewhich(1)
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64       Web page: <http://tug.org/texlive/>
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BUGS

67       None known, but report any bugs found  to  <tex-live@tug.org>  (mailing
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AUTHOR

71       fmtutil  was  written  by  Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de> and is
72       Copyright 1998 Thomas Esser.
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74       This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <c@eskimo.com>,  for  the
75       Debian  GNU/Linux  system  and  later  slightly adapted for the teTeX 3
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