[tex-live] Tex Live 2008 in Vista - installation won't start

[Norbert Preining]

On Mi, 10 Sep 2008, Ivan Sutoris wrote:
> F:\>install-tl.bat
> Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 1649
> ..
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUti
> ls.pm line 1650.

That is all coming from
	my $cwd = `cd`;
	chomp($cwd);

Can anyone with Vista try that in a small perl program? It should work.

> Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm lin


Ouch ...???? Siep, do you have an idea?

Best wishes

Norbert

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