On 4 Jan 2001, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> > I don't know.  It certainly sounds dangerous: you could remove files 
> > which this TeX run didn't generate, or which even don't belong to TeX at 
> > all.
> 
> Isn't that a bit academic?  If you run texi2dvi without the --clean,
> TeX will destroy those files (.log, .aux) for you?

Sure, but I thought --clean was invented to avoid precisely that.

Karl, could you please tell what was the rationale for introducing --clean?

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