getting latex to input a file that it then ignores

[Herbert Voss]

Am 17.10.21 um 21:18 schrieb Mike Marchywka:
> This may sound dumb, maybe there is an alternative, but
> I'm trying to get latex to read a file that it then ignores so that
> my packaging script can see that latex needs it and archive it with
> the release document latex produces. The immediate problem is
> to include an "R" script. If mjmtol in the code below  uses #1,
> then xxx.R is picked up
> as required by latex but with the definition below it never
> seems to read it. Is there some simple way to do this?
> Thanks.


See package catchfile

Herbert

>
> \newcommand{\mjmtol}[1] {}
>
> \mjmtol{
> \verbatiminput{xxx.R}
> }
>
>