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TeX: Yet Another Quine on TeX
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teqgen.tex
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\catcode13=12!
\toks0{\output{\setbox0\box255 \shipout\hbox{%
\special{ps::(!
\catcode13=12!
\toks0{\the\toks0}%
\noexpand\the\toks0\end)pop}}}}%
\the\toks0\end
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zr-tex8r commented Jan 9, 2016

The file teqgen.tex is the quine generator. First run:

tex -output-comment="" -translate-file=./teq teqgen

and then rename the output file teqgen.dvi to teq.tex.
This is the Quine source file.

When teq.tex is compiled with the command:

tex -output-comment="" -translate-file=./teq teq

it will output the DVI file teq.dvi which completely coincides with teq.tex.

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