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#1248 tex: input files that have no extension [2.5]

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Christian Schenk
TeX (59)
2012-11-08
2005-05-04
Wolfgang Petzold
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Trying to input files that have no extension, e.g.

\input Makefile

MiKTeX tries to find a file named Makefile.tex', with the default extension.tex' appended; it does not try
to input the existing file `Makefile'. This works on
GNU/Linux systems with teTeX, for example. For reasons
of portability, this should be possible with MiKTeX also.

A workaround is possible:
\input Makefile.
(with a `.' at the end).

Discussion

  • Christian Schenk

    Christian Schenk - 2005-05-11

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    Thanks for the report. This will be fixed in MiKTX 2.5.

     

  • Christian Schenk

    Christian Schenk - 2006-03-13

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    This bug has been fixed in the MiKTeX 2.5 source repository.
    Please monitor the project page (www.miktex.org) in order to
    find out when MiKTeX 2.5 will be generally available.

     

  • Christian Schenk

    Christian Schenk - 2006-08-28

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    I have just checked the current texk implementation
    (Web2C 7.5.4):

    Makefile.tex is tried before Makefile (no extension).

    I will (re)implement this behaviour in MiKTeX 2.5.