[tex-live] Building the "TeX in Practice" format and saving it in a sensible location

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2018-12-03 at 00:27:02 +0000, Philip Taylor wrote:

 > Norbert Preining wrote:
 > > You might want to read the man page (yes, as in "man page") of fmtutil.
 > >
 > > There, the switch
 > > 	-fmtdir (or --fmtdir)
 > > is mentioned, which describes where the format is saved.

 > Hmmm, "man" :  no such command under Windows !

It's a pity.  However, all Unix manual pages shipped with TeX Live are
available as PDF as well and accessible by texdoc.

In this particular case:

  texdoc fmtutil

You should always try texdoc first.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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