[tex-live] Overlength line in TLMGR -- help

[Zdenek Wagner]

2008/9/5 Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:
> The line
>
>             tlmgr option location
> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/YYYY
> ....+....!....+....!....+....!....+....!....+....!....+....!....+....!....+....!....
>
> is about 84 characters long, and in a standard 80-character
> window the string "/YYYY" wraps to the start of the next line.
> As, in some operating systems, "/" introduces a command
> qualifier, this is likely to lead to some ambiguity in
> interpreting the output.  Could I suggest that this line
> abbreviate some of the earlier options, as in
>
>             tlmgr opt loc http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/YYYY
> ....+....!....+....!....+....!....+....!....+....!....+....!....+....!....+.
>
> so as to eliminate this risk ?
>
Yes, Getopt::Long accepts unambiguous abbreviation. If your
abbreviation is ambiguous, it will display an error message showing
all possibilities. You will thus know how many characters are
mandatory.

> ** Phil.
>



-- 
Zdeněk Wagner
http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz