[tex-live] (TexLive 2009 - win32) Trouble with makeglossaries

[Zdenek Wagner]

2009/11/17 Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>:
> On Di, 17 Nov 2009, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>> OS/2 port of teTeX uses a simple trick. It has a simple wrapper
>> compiled as EXE and copied under a lot of names. When invoked it
>> searches PATH for a file with the same name, parses its first line and
>> then calls the appropriate interpreter. For instance, if I want t use
>> epstopdf, the system finds epstopdf.exe, it then finds epstopdf, sees
>> that it is a perl script and invokes it as perl epstopdf with the
>> original command line arguments. Maybe the same method could be used
>> in Windows.
>
> We do more or less the same, but do not parse the first line.
>
> Do you have the source code? Maybe Tomek can use something similar, that
> if using the extension does not provide anything useful that could
> be used.
>
I will try to find it. The source codes of all tools used for the OS/2
port are somewhere available.

> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
>
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