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Dan Luecking wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:200910211641.n9LGf13g025614@comp.uark.edu"
type="cite">At 07:26 AM 10/20/2009, you wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">I am using metapost 0.993 on Debian lenny
(installed this morning).
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When processing my .mp file mpost does not find a file to be included
by "input ...;"
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even though it is located in the same directory as my .mp-file.
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What am I missing?
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Mpost looks in the current directory. If that is the same as
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the .mp file, then mpost should find it. However, the algorithm
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for handling filenames with dots in them has undergone some
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change[1].
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If you say "input filename;" mpost certainly looks for
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"filename.mp", but some versions did not look for
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"filename"[2]. If you say "input file.name;" mpost
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certainly looks for "file.name", but not all versions
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looked for "file.name.mp"[2]. I am pretty sure the
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current version looks for all these.
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I have no idea where 0.993 stood on this matter.
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[1] Supplying the _exact_ failing command (including name of
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file in this case) is a must for getting good help.
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[2] I seem to remember that version 0.64 in emTeX (DOS) did not.
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Regards,
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Dan
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Daniel H. Luecking
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Department of Mathematical Sciences
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1 University of Arkansas
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Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701
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<font face="sans-serif">Thank you very much for your extensive reply.<br>
I went through the .mp-file again and detected the reason for the
problem: a typo in<br>
a so far unreviewed part of the code.<br>
I hope it will not happen again.<br>
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Thank you.<br>
<br>
K. D. Jantzen.<br>
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