[texhax] Puzzle: bibtex working when it *shouldn't*!!! ???

[Tomas Rokicki]

Don't forget, TeX was written in an era when each system had its
own file system with its own idiosyncrasies when it came to
extensions, upper/lowercase in file names, directory separators,
etc.  (Even today some filesystems confuse Makefile and makefile,
for instance [OSX].)  Windows has some very strange naming
conventions and issues today as well.

Short names where the extensions could be inferred were
felt to be more portable.

The file name conventions are located in what is typically the
system-dependent part of the code; MikTeX is likely making
different decisions there than TeXLive.  They should be
brought into conformance if possible, but the fact that they are
different should not be a shock.

On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 2:25 PM, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>
wrote:

> On 2018-05-08 at 08:58:00 +0200, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
>
>  > Am Tue, 8 May 2018 01:14:42 +0200 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:
>  >
>  > > On 2018-05-07 at 11:00:39 +0200, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
>  > >
>  > >  > Am Mon, 7 May 2018 10:37:06 +1200 schrieb Rolf Turner:
>  > >  >
>  > >  > > So has anyone any explanation as to why one can get away with
> the
>  > >  > > spurious/redundant ".bib" when running bibtex from the command
> line,
>  > >  > > but not when running it under MiKTeX?
>  > >  >
>  > >  > miktex is simply different.
>  > >
>  > > for what reason?
>  >
>  > I don't know. You would have to ask Christian. [...]
>
> What I meant ist that such differences in behavior should be avoided
> at any cost.  Both binaries are compiled from the same sources and if
> Christian thinks that something is wrong, the best thing he can do is
> to report it upstream.
>
> Regards,
>   Reinhard
>
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