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

[Ulrike Fischer]

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. bibtex there always add the extension.
So while in texlive you can use the (wrong) syntax
\bibliography{references.bib} it won't work with miktex.

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Ulrike Fischer 
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