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In article <1993Jan19.005157.12875@wam.umd.edu>, joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
>In article <llm958INNejl@jive.cs.utexas.edu> swisher@cs.utexas.edu (Janet M. Swisher) writes:
>>If you mistype a filename, either the input filename or some style
>>file, LaTeX keeps prompting you to input another filename until you
>>type the name of one it can find.  It won't accept a ^C or ^D as a
>>signal to just STOP.  How can you get it to quit at this point?

>If your Unix won't let use ^C out of TeX, perhaps because of a signal
>anomaly, there are lots of files you KNOW TeX can find.  Many
>installations have an empty.tex file.  [...]

StrunkTeX for Atari provides two handy files in the default directory:
null.tex is empty and quit.tex just contains a \bye. So instead of hitting
^C (which does work, but kills TeX completely) you just answer with "null"
or "quit" and get back to command level. Create yourself these 2 files and
you will never have the "can't find" blues again.

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