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

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2018-05-08 at 08:58:00 +0200, Ulrike Fischer wrote:

 > 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. [...]

What I meant ist that such differences in behavior should be avoided
at any cost.  Both binaries are compiled from the same sources and if
Christian thinks that something is wrong, the best thing he can do is
to report it upstream.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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