WIN NT file searching problems in (pdf)tex

[Hans Hagen]

Fabrice POPINEAU wrote:
> 
> Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:
> 
> > ConTeXt uses the auxiliary file 'jobname.tuo'. When this file is input,
> > tex is supposed to search for only this file. When using this remote
> > disk however, I got something like this:
> >
> > (jobname.tuo.tex) file access problem
> > (jobname.tuo.tex) file acesss problem
> > (jobname.tuo)
> >
> > So, tex seems to ask for .tex files first (two times) and then for the
> > real one. I'm not sure of it should be in the design of current tex to
> > handle files with more than one dot, but I think it makes sense to
> > search for the file asked for first. It seems like the .tuo is not
> > considered to be part of the filename. I have no explanation for the
> > double search for '.tex'.
> 
> This is not the way kpathsea does its job :
> 
>   /* Search #1: NAME doesn't have a suffix which is equal to a "standard"
>      suffix.  For example, foo.bar, but not foo.tex.  We look for the
>      name with the standard suffixes appended. */
> 
>   /* Search #2: Just look for the name we've been given, provided non-suffix
>      searches are allowed or the name already includes a suffix. */
> 
>   /* Search #3 (sort of): Call mktextfm or whatever to create a
>      missing file.  */
> 
> These are the files that are looked for.
> I guess the second try on .tuo.tex could be avoided by some !! .
> 
> I don't  think  that we can  do  much about  the search  order without
> breaking  previous  behaviour  (Olaf ?).   However,   yes, it would be
> plausible to first  look for what filename  has been given, especially
> if it has already an extension.

How about this: 

I think it makes sense when a filename has an . in it, first to try to
open this file, nothing appended. Context as well as LaTeX uses
auxiliary files, and now opening these always leads to 3 file open
attempts. (I often use buffers, *.tmp, or *.mp files and we're for some
documents talking of an overhead of thousands op unneeded open
attempts.) 

Also, is there a saver way of trying to open the file? No access error
message? It has nothing to do with access problems if a file cannot be
found. 

Hans  


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