[OS X TeX] texdoc in TeX Live 2008

[Victor Ivrii]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Thomas Rike <tricycle222 at att.net> wrote:
>
> On Dec 29, 2008, at 3:55 PM, Victor Ivrii wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Thomas Rike <tricycle222 at att.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> No. -bash: /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal-darwin/texdoc: No such
>>> file
>>> or directory
>>
>> Actually
>>
>> /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal-darwin/texdoc
>>
>> is not a real thing but a symlink to
>>
>> /usr/local/texlive/2008//texmf/scripts/texlive/texdoc.tlu
>>
>> If the latter is present
>
> There is no texdoc.tlu script in
> /usr/local/texlive/2008//texmf/scripts/texlive/
> Are you saying there is no longer a texdoc  binary file in texlive 2008,
> only a symbolic link?

Yes. There are plenty of symlinks, including tlmgr.

Try to list /usr/local/texlive/2008//texmf/scripts/texlive/ - you may
miss other important things


> Apparently my texlive 2008 is faulty. Is /usr/texbin
> supposed to have texdoc or a symbolic link in it?

symlink

> Perhaps one of those tlmgr
> fiascos removing files when I tried it out early on and it got hung up.
>  Maybe I should reinstall. Would this new TeX Live Utility possibly help?

Not sure. I use command line.

let start diagnostic: what returns

% tlmgr list |grep "^i"|wc -l


>
>>
>>
>> cd /usr/texbin
>>
>> sudo ln -s  ../../texmf/scripts/texlive/texdoc.tlu  texdoc
>>
>> HTH = Victor
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Listing /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal-darwin shows
>>>
>>> ...texconfig-sys
>>>  texcount
>>>  texexec ...
>>>
>>> with texdoc conspicuously missing. The only place I can find texdoc is in
>>> /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin/
>>> where texdoc and texdoctk are sitting between  texcount and texexec.
>>>>
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