[tex-live] Bug in TexLive 2005 and 2007? Non-writable aux-file

[Philip & Le Khanh]

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.
--------
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.
>