Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!ifistg!ifi!momma From: momma@is.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Stefan Momma) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: How to get out if wrong filename? Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 91 10:19:07 GMT References: <42.27E336F0@mom.uucp> <31174@usc> <66410@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Sender: news@ifistg.uucp Reply-To: momma@is.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Organization: Projekt Polygloss, IMS-CL/IfI-AIS Uni Stuttgart Lines: 37 In-reply-to: xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu's message of 20 Mar 91 01:44:33 GMT In article <66410@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) writes: > Since I am posting, I have a small question for long time: When I supply a > wrong file name, TeX keeps say ``give me a correct filename:'' If I know > the filename that is fine, but sometimes I have to check directory and > I find it difficult to get out of there. [On unix, Control-C won't do > and one has to use Control-Z. On msdos with emTeX I don't know how to do it. > I have to reboot the PC :-( or supply any old thing [even though it is not > a tex file] in order to get out of there.] Any one has the same experience? > And come up with a smarter solution? > > -- > xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu / rutgers!ub!xiaofei / v118raqa@ubvms.bitnet A quick and dirty solution is to create an empty file called null.tex in your TEXINPUTS directory, and to use that name whenever it asks you for the name of a file that you don't have at hand. Control-C should work then during the processing of that file (i.e. with the normal interrupt message that allows you to exit with "x"). -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. most frequent last words: " Uh-oh !" -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Stefan Momma voicemail:+49-711-121-1431(secret.:-3125,fax:-3141/-3500) Projekt Polygloss Internet: momma@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de IMS-CL/IfI-AIS Because-It's-There-NET: nbab1424@ds0rus54 Univ. of Stuttgart ICBMnet : 48 46 36 N; 9 10 48 E; alt 245 m Sneakernet: Keplerstr. 17, D-7000 Stuttgart 1, FRG -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. "WAR: been there, done that... hated it." -- QueerPeace/DAGGER chant -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.