Re: fmtutil / kpathsea

[Thomas Esser]

>    I have added the neccesary lines in fmtutil.cnf
>    latex209 tex - lplain.tex
>    slitex  tex  - splain.tex 
> 
>    The problem is that these formats ask for
>    user input and at that point fmtutil aborts.
>    Is there an easy fix for this?

What kind of user input is needed? Typing \dump?
In that case, just create
  latex209.ini
with just
  \input lplain
  \dump
  \endinput
and use the line "latex209 tex - latex209.ini".

I am not going to support user interaction in fmtutil.

Thomas