[tex-live] windows testing

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 11:08:00PM +0000, T T wrote:
> 2009/11/1 Uwe Siart <usenet at siart.de>:
> > karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:
> >
> >> FYI, we pushed out another pretest build last night. All the
> >> meaningful changes are on Windows. So Windows users, if you could test
> >> it, that would be very good.
> >
> > textdoc stopped working. At any call I get:
> >
> > ,----
> > | e:\user\siart>texdoc microtype
> > | Der Befehl "c:\PROGRA~1\texlive\2009\bin\win32\Tkpsewhich.exe" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder
> > | konnte nicht gefunden werden.
> > | tl-w32-wrapper.cmd: no appropriate script or program found: "texdoc"
> > `----
> >
> > Indeed Tkpsewhich.exe is not there in /bin/win32.
> >
> > It looks as if a spurious "T" gets appended to "kpsewhich.exe".
> 
> Does the problem also occur for dviout & texworks?
> 
> It is our batch wrapper that is at fault. Although, the wrapper itself
> is kosher, there seems to be a bug in cmd.exe when doing short name
> expansion:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.msdos.batch.nt/msg/32a14ae26b10e5cf?hl=en

Ouch!

Good catch.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg