Re: memory dump file not found in MikTeX 2.9

"Jeff E. Lewis" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 07:20 AM 3/6/2012, you wrote:
> > Following instructions (from the "managing memory dump files"
> > page), I added `etex' in the `formats' button of the
> > `settings' menu; then `etex' showed up seemingly properly in
> > the `formats' list. I then ran `update formats' which,
> > however, produced the error
> >
> >                  " miktex-makefmt: Unknown engine: etex "

My suspicion is that [2.9] miktex-makefmt is reading a configuration file 
from the MiKTeX 2.7 installation. I had a similar problem creating formats 
and Ulrike Fischer made the suggestion which fixed the problem.

 From MiKTeX-Users Digest, Vol 54, Issue 1:

My miktex 2.9. doesn't show the etex engine in the entry of latex
and there are no updates waiting.

Did you add local roots from older miktex versions to your miktex
2.9? If yes check if they contain an outdated formats.ini.

-- 
Ulrike Fischer

I had added MiKTeX as a local root (probably not a good idea!) - so the 
problem was resolved when I renamed the [2.7] formats.ini.






Prof. Jeff E. Lewis
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