Re: tilde in file names, still a problem

[Norbert Preining]

On Fr, 13 Mär 2009, Karl Berry wrote:
>     Can one of you imagine any way to fix that problem? 
> 
> I can imagine ways, like running tex differently:
> tex '\catcode126=12 \input foo~bar/baz.texi'

Yes, I thought about that, too, but it is not really a good idea in
general, because baz.texi might rely on the fact that ~ is active, which
is the default.

It would be something
        \input \protecttilde{foo~bar/baz.texi}
but I guess that does not work, probably
        \expandafter\input\protectspecials{...}
But I am not sure if that can work out.

One owuld have to split the file name into tokens with all special chars
made normal, then reset the catcodes and assemble the tokens to the
filename (now they have already the right catcodes attached). Well, I am
not as much TeXpert that I can actually understand what I wrote or
implement ;-)

Best wishes

Norbert

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