[tex-live] texdoc should always use TEXDOCS

Frank Küster frank at debian.org
Fri Mar 16 07:42:30 CET 2007


Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>> There seems to be a texdoc.bat in MikTeX, according to google, but I
>> cannot find it in their source repository
>> (https://miktex.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/miktex/miktex/).
>
> not no longer there isn't: the database now says
>
>   miktex\bin\texdoc.exe;miktex-mthelp-bin-2.5
>
> so it's been converted to an executable.  i wouldn't blame him -- .bat
> file programming isn't my idea of fun.

According to Google, it's a complete rewrite, which uses the MikTeX
package database, and finds memman.pdf with "mthelp memoir".  And
similar things.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)


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