On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Hans Hagen wrote:

> On 22-8-2011 00:14, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> On Sun, 21 Aug 2011, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>> 
>>> Current version doesn’t work at all:
>>> - it writes the buffer with doubled filename and extension parts, i.e.
>>> from foo.tex "foo-foo-temp-lilypond.tmp.tmp", but looks for
>>> "foo-temp-lilypond.tmp".
>> 
>> The \savebuffer command has changed!!!
>
> well, you wanted a jobname as prefix -)

In MkII, not MkIV :)

> (in mkii that only happens with the \protectbuffers flag is set, in mkiv 
> always)
>
> Just tell me what you expect

My preference is for \savebuffer[...][filename] to write contents in 
filename. No funny prefix or suffix.

If you have to add prefix and suffixes, please make it configurable (like 
\bufferprefix and \f!temporaryfilenameextension in MkII). With the current 
MkIV implementation, I cannot directly write the buffer to a file in 
another directory. Of course, I can work around using file.move, but that 
is adding one extra step.

Aditya