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From: Andreas Schott <[e-mail]>
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Cc: [e-mail] (Karl Berry)
Subject: \font, \input, \openin and filenames in UNIX-TeX
Reply-To: [e-mail] (Andreas Schott)

1. It seems that in UNIX the decision was that almost everything,
except a backslash, newline, blank or percent-sign are valid
in filenames, thus not terminating a filename-token after
\font, \input or \openin.

2. But why then passing the ${abc} through shell-expansion, while
backquotes not run the command.

Karl can you please comment on this?

Andreas Schott.
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