[tex-live] texdoc error

Philip TAYLOR P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Mon Sep 1 18:38:37 CEST 2008



Manuel Pegourie-Gonnard wrote:

> It doesn't play any role here. But it where, say "foo" it would achieve the
> same effect as calling the real program texlua from a symlink named "foo" on
> a Unix system. Precisely, it would force the value "foo" for the argv[0] of
> the program (that, the name the program *believes* you used to invoke it).

Ah, all a bit Unix-ey :-)  I suspect that (a)
I didn't need to know this, and (b) it has nothing
to do with the problem.  But /if/ I can't do

	"texlua", "texlua", "arg1", "arg2"

on the command line (and have any perceivable
effect), is it certain that "os.spawn" can do
it successfully ?

** Phil.


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