Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: piped i/o for TeX under unix ? Message-ID: Date: 2 Oct 90 10:20:42 GMT References: <1990Oct1.161345.11732@sics.se> Sender: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 14 In-reply-to: bjornl@sics.se's message of 1 Oct 90 16:13:45 GMT In article <1990Oct1.161345.11732@sics.se> bjornl@sics.se (Bj|rn Lisper) writes: Is there any clean way to use TeX with redirected i/o in a unix environment? I fooled around a little and got it to accept input from the standard input. The dvi output appeared on a file "texput.log". It produced a lot of ugly unfortunately, it seems pretty much built into TeX that the current job has `name' which you use, for instance, for constructing names of auxiliary files for eg indexing. \jobname tells us what that name is, but can one change it? -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)