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

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Tue, 8 May 2018 01:14:42 +0200 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:

> On 2018-05-07 at 11:00:39 +0200, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> 
>  > 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.
> 
> for what reason?  

I don't know. You would have to ask Christian. But perhaps to avoid
confusion:

Assume that you have a test.bib and a test.bib.bib in your folder. 
Which one do you expect bibtex to use when you do 
\bibliography{test.bib} ?
And which one will texlive really use?

(in miktex the answer to both questions is clear: it will always add
.bib to the name so test.bib.bib is used). 

-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/