Re: Real last call for 1.1.6fix2? (status update #4)

[Dekel Tsur]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:06:17PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> The general problem is not really input@path, but rather files with
> spaces in name in general: trying to do
>   \input{foo bar}
> or
>   \input{my dir/foobar}
> does not work with LaTeX. We cannot really use Duncan's trick [*] (as far
> as I understand it :) since we do not have access to the places where
> the \input is done. Moreover, in some places \InputIfFileExists does
> an \openin, and this is what breaks \input@path with spaces. Duncan,
> do you think we can come up with a clever definition of \input@path
> which gives the right catcode to spaces? 
> 
> Another way out of the input@path nightmare is to change the value of
> TEXINPUTS before running latex. We have to be careful in doing this,
> especially since the syntax of TEXINPUTS is different between latex
> versions. Definitely not something we want to do for 1.1.6fix2.

So what do you want to do in 1.1.6fix2 ? Use my patch (for generating a
clearer error message) or use a symbolic link ?