bug in pdfetex (re \immediate)?
Hi! consider the following Plain TeX file: \immediate\immediate\openout1=test.out \immediate\write1 {line 1} \immediate\write1 {line 2} \immediate\closeout1 \bye (it was reduced from a real-life example). if i process it with vanilla TeX engine (i.e. not with pdfetex, but with TeX), you get what i expect: two lines are written to the file test.out, and there are no pages of output (no DVI file generated). however, if i process this file with pdfetex, i do not get what i would expect: instead, the lines are written to terminal, test.out is created and is empty, and there is also a 1-page PDF file generated. the bug goes away if i remove the second \immediate, but as i said this is a simplified example converted from a real-life usage. Best, v.
Hello, On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:37:02PM +0400, Vladimir Volovich wrote:
consider the following Plain TeX file:
\immediate\immediate\openout1=test.out \immediate\write1 {line 1} \immediate\write1 {line 2} \immediate\closeout1
\bye
(it was reduced from a real-life example).
if i process it with vanilla TeX engine (i.e. not with pdfetex, but with TeX), you get what i expect: two lines are written to the file test.out, and there are no pages of output (no DVI file generated).
however, if i process this file with pdfetex, i do not get what i would expect: instead, the lines are written to terminal, test.out is created and is empty, and there is also a 1-page PDF file generated.
the bug goes away if i remove the second \immediate, but as i said this is a simplified example converted from a real-life usage.
This is indeed a bug, I have put my analysis and bug fix
as bug report 437 on the pdftex web site.
Yours sincerely
Heiko
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