[pstricks] filename format

[Herbert Voss]

Am 20.04.2012 11:16, schrieb grivet:

> A small point concerning fileplot:
>
> While using fileplot from pst-plot under WinXp/Miktex, I find that the
> file name
> must have the format myfile.xyz. Using myfile only produces the error
> file not
> found. This requirement does not seem to be documented anywhere, although
> all exemples I could find in the pst-plot doc and in the Latex Graphics
> Companion indeed use the myfile.nnn format. Under Linux, both forms are
> accepted. This is somewhat more convenient.

It is the default behaviour of TeX: a file extension .tex
must not be specified when reading the file. If you have
something like "my.file.tex", then you have to use the
complete file name. However, you can use the package grffile,
which gives some support for curious file names/extensions.

Herbert