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From: ben@servalan.uucp (Ben Mesander)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: How to get out if wrong filename?
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.035113.4212@servalan.uucp>
Date: 22 Mar 91 03:51:13 GMT
References: <22069@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <gkL5y1w163w@shark.cs.fau.edu> <1991Mar21.150225.2566@eddie.mit.edu>
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In article <1991Mar21.150225.2566@eddie.mit.edu> aryeh@eddie.mit.edu (Aryeh M. Weiss) writes:
>
>> When I supply the wrong file name, TeX keeps say ``give me a 
>> correct filename:'' If I know
>
>At the risk of starting a discussion on what the ``correct'' behavior
>should be, I do not think that a program as sophisticated as TeX
>should force you to do something against your will, i.e., enter a file
>name.

Under UNIX I just hit a ctrl-D to such silly prompts. EOF seems to stop it
just fine...