[comp.text.tex] Some way to include straight text files from TeX/LaTeX?

kirkaas@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (paul kirkaas) (07/21/90)

I want to include straight ascii text files to be formatted and printed
with LaTeX.  If I use \input or \include, TeX expects the file names
to be suffixed with .tex.  This presents 2 problems --

Changing every included file name to the .tex extension

Figuring out new shorter names for each text file because I'm on sysV,
which has a 14 character filename limit.

I would like to find a general way to include pre existing ascii
files in a TeX document.  Any suggestions?

Thanks

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Paul Kirkaas
kirkaas@cs.ucla.edu