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

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 07:08:40PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> 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?

Can't reproduce the problem in Vista.

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Siep Kroonenberg