Re[5]: Getting close

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 02:34 PM 8/26/2001 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

>Saturday, August 25, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>HH> At 09:16 PM 8/25/2001 +0200, Fabrice Popineau wrote:
>
> >> > --job-name command lines), and it is "convergin" towards web2c
> >>
> >>I could add this one too.
>
>HH> interesting, since it would make texexec --result=filename faster
>
>Why don't you set this up for MiKTeX in the mean time?

hm, it would be --jobname then, to remain compatible with whatever tex that 
does not support it; actually, you can nio say:

--passon="--job-name=bigfoot"

and achieve similar results

>And then: how would you know if the user is using a recent-enough
>fpTeX which provides the --job-name option?

i would not, but since fabrice always kindly puts recent pdftex's in a 
separate zip, updating is easy,

Hans

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