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+if not modules then modules = { } end modules ['core-uti'] = {
+    version   = 1.001,
+    comment   = "companion to core-uti.tex",
+    author    = "Hans Hagen, PRAGMA-ADE, Hasselt NL",
+    copyright = "PRAGMA ADE / ConTeXt Development Team",
+    license   = "see context related readme files"
+}
+
+--[[ldx--
+<p>A utility file has always been part of <l n='context'/> and with
+the move to <l n='luatex'/> we also moved a lot of multi-pass info
+to a <l n='lua'/> table. Instead of loading a <l n='tex'/> based
+utility file under different setups, we now load a table once. This
+saves much runtime but at the cost of more memory usage.</p>
+--ldx]]--
+
+if not jobs          then jobs          = { } end
+if not job           then jobs['main']  = { } end job = jobs['main']
+if not job.variables then job.variables = { } end
+
+--[[ldx--
+<p>Variables are saved using in the previously defined table and passed
+onto <l n='tex'/> using the following method. Of course one can also
+directly access the variable using a <l n='lua'/> call.</p>
+--ldx]]--
+
+function job.initializevariable(cs,value)
+    tex.sprint("\\xdef\\"..cs.."{"..value.."}")
+end