vironment variable (if you do).  See the --help
output for more details.

For information about obtaining TeX, please see http://tug.org/texlive,
or do a web search for TeX and your operating system or distro.
EOM
    exit 1
  fi

  # We want to use etex (or pdftex) if they are available, and the user
  # didn't explicitly specify.  We don't check for elatex and pdfelatex
  # because (as of 2003), the LaTeX team has asked that new distributions
  # use etex by default anyway.
  #
  if findprog etex; then TEX=etex; else TEX=tex; fi
fi

# For many years, the pdftex binary has included the e-tex extensions,
# but for those people with ancient TeX distributions ...
if test -z "$PDFTEX"; then
  if findprog pdfetex; then PDFTEX=pdfetex; else PDFTEX=pdftex; fi
fi


# File descriptor usage:
# 0 standard input
# 1 standard output (--verbose messages)
# 2 standard error
# 5 tools output (turned off by --quiet)
# 6 tracing/debugging (set -x output, etc.)

# Main tools' output (TeX, etc.) that TeX users are used to seeing.
#
# If quiet, discard, else redirect to the message flow.
if $quiet; then
  exec 5>/dev/null
else
  exec 5>&1
fi


# Enable tracing, and auxiliary tools output.
# 
# This fd should be used where you'd typically use /dev/null to throw
# output away.  But sometimes it is convenient to see that output (e.g.,
# from a grep) to aid debugging.  Especially debugging at distance, via
# the user.
# 
if $debug; then
  exec 6>&1
  set -vx
else
  exec 6>/dev/null
fi


#