Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!hss!kcb From: kcb@hss.caltech.edu (KC Border) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: How to get out if wrong filename? Message-ID: <1991Mar21.180156.27018@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 21 Mar 91 18:01:56 GMT References: <22069@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Sender: news@nntp-server.caltech.edu Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 26 In article terryb.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (terry bohning) writes: > In article momma@is.info > > > > > >In article <66410@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei > > > > Since I am posting, I have a small question for long time: When I supply > > 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 > > I have to reboot the PC :-( or supply any old thing [even though it is n > > a tex file] in order to get out of there.] Any one has the same experien > > And come up with a smarter solution? > >On my version of PCTeX, typing "nul" as the "correct" filename will >allow me to exit. That's because you have an empty file named nul.tex in your TEXINPUTS path. This is a good idea that's been mentioned before. BTW, the NeXT implementation of TeX by Tom Rokicki also allows you to type Control-D to kill the process. This is an even better idea. Kim C. Border Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences kcb@hss.caltech.edu 228-77 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California 91125