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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Thanks. I'll poke around next week. I use the command window quite often. As does the cygwin which is also on that machine. More later<BR>
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From: George N. White III <gnwiii@gmail.com><BR>
To: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at><BR>
Cc: Venkatesh, P.C.; texlive@tug.org <texlive@tug.org><BR>
Sent: Fri Nov 21 21:03:10 2008<BR>
Subject: Re: [tex-live] Problem installing texlive2008<BR>
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:<BR>
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> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Venkatesh, P.C. wrote:<BR>
>> Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at<BR>
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> Aehmmmmmm.... that is bad. If your Windows does not have a cmd.exe then<BR>
> we cannot do anything.<BR>
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> I cannot help here, what is failing for you is a simple line<BR>
> my $cwd = `cd`;<BR>
> which calls a cmd.exe and in that cd. If that does not work, I don't<BR>
> know what is hosed.<BR>
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Could this be caused by a PERL5LIB setting? I think TL2007 and some 3rd<BR>
party perl apps set PERL5LIB.<BR>
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George N. White III <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca><BR>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia<BR>
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