[OS X TeX] texdoc in TeX Live 2008

[Thomas Rike]

On Dec 29, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> 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
Thanks for taking time to guide me:
This is what I get after cd /usr/local/texlive/2008//texmf/scripts/ 
texlive/

ThomasRikeMBP1:texlive trike$ ls
getnonfreefonts.pl	test-tlpdb.tlu		tlmgrgui
lua			texconf.tlu		uninstall-win32.pl
rungs.tlu		tlmgr.pl

>> 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

ThomasRikeMBP1:~ trike$  tlmgr list |grep "^i"|wc -l
     1733