On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:17:33 +0200, Tobias wrote: > Hi, > > Wybo Dekker schrieb: > > > the method that taco posted is the way to go, since it's in the main > > > context file that i (when zipping) change the version number > > > > except that, if you unzip the newest cont-tmf and do mktexlsr but forget > > to regenerate the format, it tells that the new version is there, but the > > old one is actually run. > How about: > - check whether cont-en.efmt is older than context.tex > If this is the case, issue a warning/error > - check the version in context.tex > > This catches also buried problems like fmt file older than texmf tree > which can also produce strange errors. (e.g. with cont-new.tex). > > > So if I try to make a fool-proof script that needs the newer version, it > > would be nice to have the version from the format itself. > well using cont-en you got this number, unfortunally the fmt file is a > not that easily readable memory dump so you cannot easily grep for the > number directly without using TeX.
perl doesnt care about that binary stuff :) /\(format=cont-.. (\d+).(\d+).(\d+)\)/; -- groeten, Taco
