[tex-live] Re: [NTG-pdftex] [ pdftex-Bugs-302 ] -jobname doesn't overcome texput

Hartmut Henkel hartmut_henkel at gmx.de
Sun Apr 3 21:20:31 CEST 2005


Hi,

the bug report below seems to be a more general thing, affecting also e.
g. tex. Maybe it's something for Olaf?

Regards, Hartmut


On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 noreply at sarovar.org wrote:

> Bugs item #302, was opened at 2005-03-01 13:06
> You can respond by visiting:
> http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=302&group_id=106
>
> Category: None
> Group: v1.21a
> Status: Open
> Resolution: None
> Priority: 5
> Submitted By: John Denker (jsd)
> Assigned to: Nobody (None)
> Summary: -jobname doesn't overcome texput
>
> Initial Comment:
> Hi --
>
> Suppose I want to pipe commands into pdflatex:
>        echo '\typeout{---\jobname---}' | \
>          pdflatex --jobname foo
>
> You might expect that to type out ---foo---
> but instead it types out ---texput---
>
> I observe that --jobname works just fine for
> any filename I can think of, just not when the
> filename is absent entirely.
>
> I can offer two workarounds:
>   1) It's not documented, but nevertheless possible
>    to \def\jobname{foo}.
>
>   2) Of course it's possible to stuff the commands
>    into tmp.tex and then pdflatex --jobname foo tmp.tex
>
> Because these workarounds exist, I would rate this
> as a very low-priority bug.  But it had me surprised
> and confused for a while.  Given the overall high
> quality of the product, I thought I'd bring it to
> your attention.
>
>
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