[tex-live] tlinfra update done

Siep Kroonenberg siepo at cybercomm.nl
Sun Feb 15 22:00:57 CET 2009


On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:05:46AM +0000, T T wrote:
> 2009/2/15 Dan Luecking <luecking at uark.edu>:
> > Karl Berry (karl at freefriends.org) wrote
> 
> > One wonders what people would experience who have their command
> > line provided by a completely different shell than cmd or 4NT.
> 
> Well, I don't think it is feasible to give support for all possible
> shells. People savy enough to change their default command interpreter
> can be expected to deal with those kind of problems. Do you know of
> any other command interpreters besides 4NT that could be used as
> replacement for cmd.exe?

Last year we had some discussion about whether or not to use
%COMSPEC%. At the time, it just looked better practice to me, but
since there are apparently still people using 4NT, maybe
we shouldn't.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg


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