The normal usage is to say tex paper to start processing paper.tex. If TeX doesn't get a filename in the first line, the jobname is texput. The e response to TeX's error prompt causes the system default editor to start up at the current line of the current file. A convenient file in the library is null.tex, containing nothing. This version of TeX understands the following command line options.
Print help message and exit.
The mode can be one of batchmode, nonstopmode, scrollmode, and errorstopmode. Whether this option is available is the choice of the installer. Whether this option is available is the choice of the installer. See the Kpathsea manual for details. Enable mktexfmt, where fmt must be one of tex or tfm.