Re: [NTG-pdftex] input

1 Jul 2005


      Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
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"Hans" == Hans Hagen  writes:
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Hi, how about
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\pdfinput {filename} 
\pdfopenin {filename} 
\pdfopenout {filename}
Hi,
if you provide new primitives, it would be nice to have a switch which
forces \pdfopenout to create a file with the name <filename>.
It's quite annoying that `\openout\x=Makefile' creates a file
`Makefile.tex'.
As far as \input and \openin is concerned, Knuth's rule is clear
(first search for <filename> and then for <filename>.tex).  This is ok,
but kpathsea's search strategy is wrong.
you can influence that in the texmf.cnf file

allow_multiple_suffixes = f

otherwise you will get searches for reinhard.kotucha.tex first if you ask for
reinhard.kotucha explicitly (years ago, when i was running tex over a network i 
noticed that this was slowing down tex a lot and then fabrice made that option)

Hans


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