[375] in SIPB bug reports
Re: No Deal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Mar 14 13:07:36 1989
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 89 13:04 EST
From: Paul Krause <pfkrause@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU>
To: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bug-sipb[0360]
I realize that the flaming is long over now, but I worry about what
Ken's message might portend:
This is approximately what I would want to see.
The reasonable behavior would seem to me to be using the full name as
supplied, with the .tex suffix appended if not already present. Then
strip off that suffix (from the last period, not the first) and
replace it with .dvi &c as needed.
There is a very good reason for not doing this, called VERSION NUMBERS.
Since these are mysteriously lacking from the Unix "operating system,"
the best that can be gotten from Gnu Emacs (or whatever) is to bash the
extension and version number into a catch-all "suffix," as in:
myfile.tex.~1~
myfile.tex.~2~
myfile.tex (most recent version)
The problem arises if you try to run LaTeX on (e.g.) myfile.tex.~2~
(this will make cTeX hiccup, but it works if you type the whole thing in
a second time).
The solution is NOT to change TeX. Change Unix!
