[tex-k] texi2dvi: tex --file-line-error-style '\nonstopmode' does not work

[Akim Demaille]

 >   $ tex --file-line-error '\nonstopmode\input story'
 >   This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.7x)

 >   (/usr/local/texlive8/texmf/tex/plain/base/story.tex [1])
 >   ! Emergency stop
 >   ...
 >   $

 > If the \nonstopmode hadn't taken effect, I would have been given the *
 > prompt for input.

This is Debian's most recent TeX :(

I used a different test:

| /tmp % latex --file-line-error '\nonstopmode' '\coucou'          nostromo Err 1
| This is TeXk, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
|  file:line:error style messages enabled.
| LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
| Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n
| ohyphenation, loaded.
| 
| ! Undefined control sequence
| 
| *x
| 
| ???:0: LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
| 
| See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
| Type  H <return>  for immediate help
| 
| *^[[A
| ! Text line contains an invalid character
| 
| *x
| 
| *
| ! Emergency stop
| No pages of output.
| Transcript written on texput.log.
| /tmp % latex '\nonstopmode' '\coucou'                            nostromo Err 1
| This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
| LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
| Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n
| ohyphenation, loaded.
| 
| ! Undefined control sequence.
| <*> \nonstopmode \coucou
|                         
| ! Emergency stop.
| <*> \nonstopmode \coucou
|                         
| No pages of output.
| Transcript written on texput.log.

But with --interaction it doesn't work any better :( I lost (fixed)
the real example I was working on when I met this.

| /tmp % latex --file-line-error --interaction=nonstopmode '\coucou'
| This is TeXk, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
|  file:line:error style messages enabled.
| LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
| Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n
| ohyphenation, loaded.
| ! Undefined control sequence
| 
| *
| ! Emergency stop
| No pages of output.
| Transcript written on texput.log.