[351] in SIPB bug reports
Re: No Deal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 8 01:12:26 1989
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 21:35:07 EST
From: Bill Sommerfeld <wesommer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: <amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Andrew Marc Greene's message of Tue, 7 Mar 89 20:57:05 EST,
I wrote my last message over the course of about two or three hours
(dinner got in the way in the middle); I see I should have sent it out
earlier.
What does PC-DOS have to do with this argument? [Answer: nothing at
all]. Why should a brain-damaged program loader[1] drag down all other
implementations of TeX down to its level?
In Unix, file suffixes (not extensions!) include the '.'
I reiterate:
Either TeX should refuse to process files not ending in '.tex', or it
should form \jobname based on what "basename $filename .tex" would
print.
- Bill
[1] PC-DOS is _NOT_ an operating system; it's a program loader.
