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From: smithda@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu (J. Daniel Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Current input file and line number in TeX
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Date: 30 Nov 89 18:04:06 GMT
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In article <17388@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> cps3xx!eecae!tank!uwvax!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!kehyoe kehyoe@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Ong Keh Yoe) writes:
>Does anyone know how to get the current input file and line number in TeX?
>[..]
>found any way of getting the current input line -- like the one TeX prints
>out when it encounteres an error. Any suggestions?
This one seems easy: install the new version of TeX (2.999something
now, soon to be 3.0)

The following is from Knuth's note describing the extensions to TeX:
   9.  Looking at the Line Number.
       ...
       TeX has a new parameter \inputlineno which contains the number
       of the line that TeX would show on an error message if an error
       occured now.
       ...

That seems to be the answer to this question
   Dan
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