[tex-live] Re: [tex-k] TeX finding filenames with spaces

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Karl Berry wrote:

>Fabrice, Hans, Sebastian -- I hope you are not serious.  Although you
>personally may never use anything but PDF, please consider the TeX user
>constituency, and keep TL useful to everyone.  We must continue to
>include DVI support.
>  
>
Don't panic yet. pdftex emits DVI as well as PDF, no problem. If you remake
all the symlinks to point to "pdfetex" instead of "tex", and remake 
format files,
I think you'll find no change at all.

It is a serious suggestion. The only arguments against it are

 * the "must keep Knuth's legacy intact" attitude.
 * any ways in which pdfeTeX does NOT give identical results

if the second of these applies, clearly thats  an end to the suggestion

Sebastian