[tex-live] texdoc error

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:58:25AM +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> 2008/9/10 Siep Kroonenberg <siepo at cybercomm.nl>:
> > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 02:27:03AM +0200, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> >>
> >> By the way Philip, if you know of a good "Windows for the command line
> >> addict" tutorial... (and details such as how to set environment
> >> variables, etc.)
> >
> > If you can get hold of Windows 2000: it has a pretty decent DOS
> > command-line reference under help. Unfortunately, I completely
> > failed to export it to a standalone helpfile.
> >
> > Most DOS commands have a /? switch. Reinhard had a script to collect
> > all such output into a pdf. A couple of pages:
> >
> > http://vtatila.kapsi.fi/batch_tutorial.html
> > http://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid68_gci1294869,00.html
> >
> > Windows XP in a nutshell also has a chapter on the command-line and
> > batchfiles.
> >
> > As to environment variables specifically: you set them with
> >
> > set var=value
> >
> > and unset them with
> >
> > set var=
> >
> And remember that the names of the environment variables are all
> uppercase, the conversion is performed by cmd.exe. Thus if you type
> 
> set var=value
> 
> it will set environment variable VAR. you can type on the command line
> 
> echo %var%
> echo %VAR%
> echo %vAr%
> 
> and all these command will display value. However, if you try to getn
> the value of the environment variable from your program, you must use
> the name in uppercase, eg. in C you must use getenv("VAR").

Perl appears to do this conversion too.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg