[tex-live] Bug in TexLive 2005 and 2007? Non-writable aux-file

[Philip & Le Khanh]

OK, herewith VMS results (TeX 3.1415b)

> ALPHA6::Chaa006 : latex ex
> This is TeX, Version 3.1415b [PD VMS 3.4] (preloaded format=LATEX 95.1.16)
> (CHAA:[006]EX.TEX;1
> LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 1
> (TEX_ROOT:[COMMON.TEX.INPUTS.LATEX.BASE]BOOK.CLS;1
> Document Class: book 1994/12/09 v1.2x Standard LaTeX document class
> (TEX_ROOT:[COMMON.TEX.INPUTS.LATEX.BASE]BK10.CLO;1)) (CHAA:[006]EX.AUX;2)
> ! I can't write on file `EX.aux'.
> \document ...ate \openout \@mainaux \jobname .aux
>                                                   \immediate \write \@mainau...
> l.1 \documentclass{book}\begin{document}
>                                         TEXT\end{document}
> Please type another output file name:
>  Cancel
> ! Interruption.
> <to be read again>
>                    \immediate
> l.1 \documentclass{book}\begin{document}
>                                         TEXT\end{document}
> ? x
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on CHAA:[006]EX.LIS;3.
> ALPHA6::Chaa006 : type ex.tex
 > ALPHA6::Chaa006 (i.e., file empty)

As hypothesized, ex.tex;1 is still fine, but TeX has created
ex.tex;2 which is empty.

** Phil.