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## Name

fmtutil - utility for maintaining TeX format files

## Synopsis

fmtutil [ OPTION... ] COMMAND

## Description

fmtutil is used to create or recreate format and hyphenation files or show information about format files.

COMMAND is one of:

--all
  recreate all format files
--byfmt formatname
  (re)create the format for format formatname
--byhyphen hyphenfile
  (re)create formats that depend on the hyphenation file hyphenfile
--help
  print a summary of commands and options
--missing
  create any missing format files
--showhyphen formatname
  print the name of the hyphenation file for the format formatname

## Options

--cnffile file
  specify the configuration file fmtutil should use
--dolinks
  (not implemented, just for compatibility)
--fmtdir directory
  set the destination directory for format files generated by fmtutil to directory
--force
  (not implemented, just for compatibility)
--quiet
  (not implemented, just for compatibility)
--test
  (not implemented, just for compatibility)

## Files

fmtutil.cnf
  default configuration file

## See Also

kpsewhich(1)

Web page: <http://tug.org/teTeX/ >

## Bugs

None known, but report any bugs found to <tetex@dbs.uni-hannover.de> (mailing list).

## Author

fmtutil was written by Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>

and is Copyright © 1998 Thomas
  Esser.

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <c@eskimo.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It may be used by other distributions without contacting the author. Any mistakes or omissions in the manual page are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this manual page should be directed to me (and not to the primary author).

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