The Thanh Han wrote:
indeed it must be something with string recycling (in tex.ch) during "\input something"; however both tex & pdftex (in texlive) seem not to release the filename string, but pdftex takes longer to process later \input's. FWIW, pdftex doesn't create new strings in Reinhard's example (it runs in dvi mode).
i remember a discussion about this filename issue and that it is supposed to be reclaimed when it's the last thing added to the pool (some etex thing) but i cannot find anything on the web Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------