Re: Task-completion reporting does not reflect -o argument

[Jonathan Dushoff]

Thanks.

On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 2:37 PM Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 04:12:21PM -0500, Jonathan Dushoff wrote:
> > Thanks for responding!
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> > etex, pdftex and pdflatex all seem to take the jobname argument, which
> > may be what's wanted. Alternatively, you could consider mentioning
> > briefly in the documentation that -o simply moves the output file.
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> I've added an extra message in a recent commit.  I don't think it's
> worth mentioning in the documentation how it works.  -jobname would
> be possible but I don't want to mess with this any more than I need
> to.  I don't find texi2dvi a particular easy program to work on (I'm
> probably partially to blame here) and I don't want to risk breaking
> some rare use case.



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