[tex-live] Bug in TexLive 2005 and 2007? Non-writable aux-file
Philip & Le Khanh
Philip-and-LeKhanh at Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org
Tue Mar 6 19:02:14 CET 2007
I have now repeated the same test using e-TeX
under VMS :
> ALPHA6::Chaa006 : etex
> This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.0;fMar06 [PD VMS 3.6f]
and intriguingly, this does /not/ create a new,
empty "ex.tex" after Ctrl-C / X. Interesting ...
** P.
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Philip & Le Khanh wrote:
> I confess I was confused by the possible involvement
> of LaTeX, particularly as the log file shewed
> "\openout1 = `ex.tex'." which did not appear
> in the original. However, I have now replicated
> the problem using Plain TeX :
>
>
> > ALPHA6::Chaa006 : type ex.tex;3
> > \newwrite \aux
> > \immediate \openout \aux = ex.aux
> > \immediate \write \aux {END}
> > \immediate \closeout \aux
> >
> > \end
> > ALPHA6::Chaa006 :
>
> and I can confirm that (under VMS), Ctrl-C followed
> by "X" has exactly the same effect as with the LaTeX
> example. Thus it does indeed seem that it is TeX
> itself that is implicated, rather than LaTeX or Web2C.
>
> ** Phil.
>
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