[comp.text.tex] piped i/o for TeX under unix ?

bjornl@sics.se (Bj|rn Lisper) (10/01/90)

Is there any clean way to use TeX with redirected i/o in a unix environment?
I fooled around a little and got it to accept input from the standard input.
The dvi output appeared on a file "texput.log". It produced a lot of ugly
messages though (even though the dvi file was OK) and I found no way to
redirect the output through, say, a pipe.

It would be a nice feature to fit TeX into chains of text-producing commands
cleanly.

Bjorn Lisper

spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (10/02/90)

In article <1990Oct1.161345.11732@sics.se> bjornl@sics.se (Bj|rn Lisper) writes:

   Is there any clean way to use TeX with redirected i/o in a unix environment?
   I fooled around a little and got it to accept input from the standard input.
   The dvi output appeared on a file "texput.log". It produced a lot of ugly
unfortunately, it seems pretty much built into TeX that the current
job has `name' which you use, for instance, for constructing names of
auxiliary files for eg indexing. \jobname tells us what that name is,
but can one change it?

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