[346] in SIPB bug reports
LaTeX file name problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Mar 7 17:50:19 1989
From: bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 17:40:08 EST
To: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
If you give latex the filename 'foo', it says "cannot find foo.tex"
(assuming that your file actually IS called foo, not foo.tex.) If your
file is foo.bar and you run "latex foo.bar" it will accept the file,
and produce the output foo.dvi, foo.log, etc.
This is dangerous, as it does this without commenting that anything is
wrong. What if I had chapter.1, chapter.2, etc? At any rate, it
should be consistent: either not accept files without .tex, or not
truncate those without it.
Barr3y
