CTAN package upgrade: filecontents

Jim Hefferon ftpmaint at alan.smcvt.edu
Wed Aug 18 18:05:39 CEST 2004


A package has been upgraded at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your 
favorite mirror.

Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: filecontents
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/filecontents
Summary description: Improved version of LaTeX2e's filecontents environment
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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LaTeX2e's filecontents and filecontents* environments
enable a LaTeX source file to generate external files
as it's run through latex.  However, there are two
limitations of these environments: They refuse to
overwrite existing files; and, they can be used only
before the \documentclass declaration.  The
filecontents package removes these limitations, making
it possible to overwrite existing files and to use
filecontents/filecontents* anywhere.
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You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/filecontents
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 



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