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
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