Bug#350186: pdftex: -interaction option does not work

[Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de>]

Hi,

are you the one who submitted http://bugs.debian.org/350186 ?
If yes, would you be so kind to correct the submitters address and
answer the question asked in there?

<quote src=Ralf>
> 
> Package: pdftex
> Version: 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
> Severity: important
> Tags: experimental

Why 'experimental'? pdfTeX version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2, which is part of
teTeX 3.0 has been in unstable for quite some time now. Actually, in a
few days it will go to testing.

> When invoking pdftex the -interaction option does not seem to work.
> Each time I am taken into "extended mode" and I have to hit RET to
> finnish my jobs. This makes batch jobs impossible for me.

The '-interaction' switch is unrelated to the 'extended mode', which is
the mode used for actual typesetting (as opposed to 'ini mode' used for
dumping formats). Could you please tell us what commandline options you
are using exactly, as well as what you are trying to achieve? Thanks.
</quote>

Regards,
  Hilmar
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