[tex-live] Re: [tex-implementors] bug in etex

[Olaf Weber]

Peter Breitenlohner writes:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Olaf Weber wrote:

>> ...  I'm not sure how to check for correctness beyond that point.

> You could run this

>    \toksdef\whatevertoks = 266
>    \toksdef\extratoks = 267
>    \whatevertoks={junk}
>    \everypar{\extratoks=\whatevertoks}
>    \immediate\write16{t={\the\toks265}}
>    \showthe\extratoks  % should be empty
>    some paragraph
>    \showthe\extratoks  % should be "junk"
>    \par
>    \bye

My results:

$ ./etex /tmp/etst2.tex
This is e-TeXk, Version 3.141592-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.3)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(/tmp/etst2.tex
t={}
> .
l.6 \showthe\extratoks
                        % should be empty
?
> junk.
l.8 \showthe\extratoks
                        % should be "junk"
?
[1] )
Output written on etst2.dvi (1 page, 224 bytes).
Transcript written on etst2.log.

> Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de>

-- 
Olaf Weber

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