4 Three programs: Metafont, MetaPost, and TeX ********************************************* TeX, Metafont, and MetaPost have a number of features in common. Besides the ones here, command-line options and other commonalities are described in the previous section.
· Runtime options The 'texmf.cnf' configuration file. · Initial and virgin Making memory dumps vs. production runs. · Memory dumps .fmt/.base files for fast startup. · Editor invocation The 'e' response at errors. · \input filenames Filename delimiters and Kpathsea expansion.