Not all the commonly used perl scripts in the texmf tree have corresponding<br>.exe files in bin/win32. For those lucky enough to avoid Win32, irun is<br>a wrapper that is used to create filename.exe to run perl on<br>"kpathsea -format=texmfscripts filename".
<br><br>1. irun.exe must be writable. In the default install it is not.<br><br>2. pdfcrop.exe (e.g., texmf/scripts/pdfcrop/pdfcrop.pl) complains <br>of missing <a href="http://Functions.pm">Functions.pm</a> with the following code:
<br><br> use File::Spec::Functions qw(devnull);<br> $my $null = devnull();<br><br>The code below for me on Win XP with the TL2005 perl, and in Fedora Core 4<br>(perl-5.8.6-18) but I have no idea how portable this is:<br>
<br> use File::Spec;<br> my $null = File::Spec->devnull();<br>-- <br>George N. White III <<a href="mailto:aa056@chebucto.ns.ca">aa056@chebucto.ns.ca</a>><br>Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia