Bug#350186: pdftex: -interaction option does not work

["Noah Slater" <nslater@gmail.com>]

Hilmar,

I have been on holiday this past few days. Please allow me chance to
find the original problem input file etc tonight and reply. If I
cannot I will let you know.

I hope this is ok.

Thanks,
Noah

On 13/09/06, Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> On 11.09.06 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> > Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> > > On 09.09.06 Noah Slater (nslater@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > >> As far as I remember I was trying to run `pdftex -interaction
> > >> batchmode' which at the time was not running in batch mode, but
> > >> instead providing me with interactive imput prompts.
> > >>
> > > A minimal example reads:
> > >
> > > hille@kloetzer:~ $ more a.tex
> > > iiii
> > > \bye
> >
> > Shouldn't there be an error, in order to test whether tex is
> > running interactively, something like
> >
> > iii \blubber{} aaa
> > \bye
> >
> Hmm, I simply forgot what the batchmode option is good for.... It
> works here too.
>
> To sum up:
>
> 1. The maintainers can't reproduce the bug
> 2. The submitter doesn't know any more, what he was exactly doing and
>    when the bug occured so he can't help them.
>
> Noah, is it OK to close now? If it pops up again later you may
> submit a new bug.
>
> H.
> --
> sigmentation fault


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