Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!durer!durer.cme.nist.gov!przemek From: przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: How to get out if wrong filename? Message-ID: Date: 26 Mar 91 20:53:54 GMT References: <1991Mar21.150225.2566@eddie.mit.edu> <1991Mar22.035113.4212@servalan.uucp> <1991Mar22.133249.26243@eddie.mit.edu> Sender: news@cme.nist.gov Organization: U. Notre Dame/NIST Lines: 13 In-reply-to: aryeh@eddie.mit.edu's message of 22 Mar 91 13:32:49 GMT >>>>> On 22 Mar 91 13:32:49 GMT, aryeh@eddie.mit.edu (Aryeh M. Weiss) said: Aryeh> That's NOT the point. TeX should, at the users's option, ignore an Aryeh> \input request and continue to process the main file. Yes, you can Aryeh> terminate the job, but that should be your LAST resort. Let me just point out that the common solution to that is to have the file `null.tex' in your TEXINPUT directory, containing something like \typeout{Null file} -- przemek klosowski (przemek@ndcva.cc.nd.edu) Physics Dept University of Notre Dame IN 46556