Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX \openin — bug or feature

[Jonathan Kew]

On 20/09/2022 16:38, Philip Taylor (Hellenic Institute) wrote:
Given
\newread \standin
\openin \standin = MM3.dat

I had expected XeTeX to open MM3.dat for input — instead, it opened 
MM3.dat.tex

Bug or feature ?

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/Philip Taylor/


Have you compared other engines? My TL installation is woefully 
out-of-date, but with the versions I have on hand, I see similar 
behavior in tex/pdftex/luatex.

So I think it's a feature (though perhaps a surprising/undesirable one).

JK