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- From: cgra@btma74.nohost.nodomain (Chris Gray)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: Interrupt latex at filename prompt?
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- Date: 20 Jan 93 16:35:36 GMT
- References: <llm958INNejl@jive.cs.utexas.edu> <1993Jan19.005157.12875@wam.umd.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan19.005157.12875@wam.umd.edu>, joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
- >In article <llm958INNejl@jive.cs.utexas.edu> swisher@cs.utexas.edu (Janet M. Swisher) writes:
- >>If you mistype a filename, either the input filename or some style
- >>file, LaTeX keeps prompting you to input another filename until you
- >>type the name of one it can find. It won't accept a ^C or ^D as a
- >>signal to just STOP. How can you get it to quit at this point?
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- >If your Unix won't let use ^C out of TeX, perhaps because of a signal
- >anomaly, there are lots of files you KNOW TeX can find. Many
- >installations have an empty.tex file. [...]
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- StrunkTeX for Atari provides two handy files in the default directory:
- null.tex is empty and quit.tex just contains a \bye. So instead of hitting
- ^C (which does work, but kills TeX completely) you just answer with "null"
- or "quit" and get back to command level. Create yourself these 2 files and
- you will never have the "can't find" blues again.
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