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Re: Interrupt latex at filename prompt?

#10578
From: Rolf Lindgren
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:12
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In article <1443@se.alcbel.be> cgra@btma74.nohost.nodomain (Chris Gray) writes:
>   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.
>
>

null.tex should contain NOTHING (or a few commented-out lines of comments)

quit.tex should contain \end
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       Rolf Lindgren           |       "The opinions expressed above are
       616 Bjerke Studentheim  |        not necessarily those of anyone"
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From: rolfl@ulrik.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren)
Subject: Re: Interrupt latex at filename prompt?
In-Reply-To: cgra@btma74.nohost.nodomain's message of 20 Jan 93 16:35:36 GMT
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