[tex-live] LZMA

Axel E. Retif axel.retif at mac.com
Thu Sep 25 10:57:38 CEST 2008


On  25 Sep, 2008, at 03:41, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Axel E. Retif <axel.retif at mac.com>  
> wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> The same ---confusing for me--- happened when I tried to download  
>> tlmgr.pl
>> with Safari. Even if I deleted the extra .txt extension Safari  
>> added to the
>> file, the script was useless.
>
> No it was not useless: just run UNIX command
>
> chmod a+x foo.pl

No, it was useless ---when I tried to run tlmgr I got

> tlmgr option location
> /usr/texbin/tlmgr: line 5: !DOCTYPE: No such file or directory
> /usr/texbin/tlmgr: line 6: syntax error near unexpected token  
> `newline'
> /usr/texbin/tlmgr: line 6: `"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd 
> ">'

[...]

>> I had to use wget (actually, CocoaWget
>>
>> http://en.cocoawget.nobody.jp/ )
>
> These GUI lovers, command line haters! :-)

And our bad, bad example is spreading ---Gnome has a GUI for wget:

http://www.gnome.org/projects/gwget/screenshots.html

Best,

Axel




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