[tex-live] texlive perl

Lars Madsen daleif at imf.au.dk
Wed Apr 14 22:45:18 CEST 2010


Lars Madsen wrote:
>>>
>>
>>
>> Strange. This works for me with our perl just fine:
>>
>>   perl -e "system('start somefile.pdf')"
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tomek
> 
> which perl is this?
> 
> as far as I can see I cannot just run 'perl' when the only thing I have 
> installed is TeXLive, the tlperl is hidden inside and not really 
> available for the outside.
> 
> cmd.exe does not respond to it.
> 
> I can get things executed using runscript though, so perhaps we are 
> doing down too many subshells for ARs liking
> 
> /daleif
> 

the interesting part is also that AR does react, by telling that some 
error occured. But not really mentioning what error.

/daleif


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