[XeTeX] Strange problem with 0.996 and 0.9995 xetex and File Names.

[Fr. Michael Gilmary]

Peter Dyballa wrote:


> Am 05.09.2009 um 13:06 schrieb Apostolos Syropoulos:
>
>> $ xelatex "test II"
>> Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
>> $ xelatex test\ II.tex
>> This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.0 (TeX Live 2009)
>> entering extended mode
>> (./test II.tex
>> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
>
>
> This is *really* fascinating! I changed the shell I was working in 
> from tcsh to bash (2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin8.0)) � and 
> for me xelatex crashes whenever I pass "file name.tex" (with 
> extension) to the programme... It runs OK when I don't give the 
> extension.
>
> I wouldn't trust born again folks and things!


Well, here we can produce output with no errors with bash (GNU bash, 
version 2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin8.0)) on Mac OS 10.4.11.

I tried TeXShop and terminal, bash, ksh, tcsh and everything ran fine, 
whether:
xelatex test2.tex
xelatex test2

xelatex test\ 2.tex
xelatex test\ 2

xelatex testII.tex
xelatex testII

xelatex test\ II.tex
xelatex test\ II

Curiously, though, when I ran zsh, it processed only the files named 
with the roman numeral, but said it couldn't find the file: test\ 2 --- 
with or without the .tex extension. But I'm no expert in shells.





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