Re: -jobname broken?

Am Wed, 2 Sep 2015 16:48:47 -0400 schrieb Jason Gross:

> Do you have an example of -jobname working?  Even if I put
> \message{\jobname} later, or remove it alltogether, latex doesn't seem to
> respect -jobname:

Why are you testing this with echo-calls and pipes?

latex --jobname=foo somelatexfile

and

latex --jobname=foo
\documentclass{article}\begin{document}abc\end{document}

works fine and create a foo.dvi

-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/


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