[362] in SIPB bug reports
.tex -> .dvi
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 8 20:53:56 1989
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 89 20:52:44 EST
From: Mark W. Eichin <eichin@athena.MIT.EDU>
To: Barr3y Jaspan <bjaspan@athena.MIT.EDU>,
Cc: bug-sipb@athena.MIT.EDU
I think things would appear much clearer if we stopped looking at the
problem backwards.
Isn't what we want to happen that the termination ".tex" mutate into
the termination ".dvi" (or .log, or whatever)? Whatever is left is
"obviously" the \jobname...
Then, we have the issue of what to do if the .tex is missing. Clearly,
mutating something ELSE into .dvi is wrong. This leaves appending .dvi
or not performing the operation (the latter is equivalent to what cc
does, the former is actually convenient :-).
_Mark_
