Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just tried the following: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% echo '\\bye' > foobar >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% pdftex foobar >> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7) >> %&-line parsing enabled. >> entering extended mode >> (./foobar ) >> No pages of output. >> Transcript written on foobar.log. >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% luatex foobar >> This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.4-2008071722 (Web2C 7.5.7) >> ! I can't find file `foobar.tex'. >> <*> foobar >> >> Please type another input file name: >> >> Looks like luatex doesn't want to eat files without extensions, while pdftex >> accepts them. Is it a feature? > > I would like to say feature, but that endagers backward compatibily, > so it is actually a bug ;-) that will be fixed in the next release.
I am not sure: I think this is backwards compatibility with web2c rather than with TeX canonical, so it would not appear to be the same level of holiness. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ dev-luatex mailing list [email protected] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-luatex
