[luatex] read external file without extension

[Herbert Voss]

On 01.02.2013 11:19, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Fri, 1 Feb 2013 07:33:44 +0100 schrieb Herbert Voss:
>
>> I have adifferent behaviour between pdflatex and lualatex:
>>
>> create any file _without an extension, eg foo, with contents bar :-)
>>
>> \documentclass{minimal}
>> \begin{document}
>> \input{foo}
>> \end{document}
>>
>> running it with pdflatex it is ok, but with lualatex:
>> ! LaTeX Error: File `foo.tex' not found.
>
>
> On miktex 2.9.
>
> \input foo
> ==========
> works fine with pdftex, luatex, xetex
>
> \input{foo}
> works with luatex (plain) but not with
> pdftex,xetex,pdflatex,lualatex,xelatex.
>
> It could be different in other miktex versions: I remember a
> discussion about a changed behaviour in different miktex versions.
>
> Imho one should simply avoid files names with an unstandard number
> of dots (where unstandard means everything different to 1).

that's not my point! The different behaviour of a _basic_ functionality
is it ...

Herbert