Re: PassiveTeX problems

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:

[snip!]
> $ pdflatex "&pdfxmltex" "installprogram.fo"
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417 (Web2C 7.3.3.1)
> (./installprogram.fo! Unable to read an entire line---bufsize=50000.
> Please increase buf_size in texmf.cnf.
> $ locate texmf.cnf
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf

The relevant lines in /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, are:

% Buffer size.  TeX uses the buffer to contain input lines, but macro
% expansion works by writing material into the buffer and reparsing the
% line.  As a consequence, certain constructs require the buffer to be
% very large.  As distributed, the size is 50000; most documents can be
% handled within a tenth of this size.
buf_size.pdfxmltex = 200000
buf_size.xmltex = 200000
buf_size = 50000

It looks like buf_size has been set up for pdfxmltex, but that for
some reason the default value is picked.

Does anyone know why?

Thanx!


- Steinar