[tex-live] no kpsetool on windows?

François Charette firmicus at ankabut.net
Tue Apr 13 15:15:41 CEST 2010


On 12/04/2010 23:00, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Francois -- my suggestion is, forget kpsetool.  Why do you need it?
> Just always use kpsewhich.
>
> kpsetool is a /bin/sh script so it can't run on standard Windows.
> Rewriting it is not likely to happen, at least not by me.  Sorry.
>
> k
>
>    

You're right. I had not even looked at kpsetool to figure out it is a 
shell script. Biber now uses "kpsewhich -file-type='bib'" instead. It is 
simpler and always works. Sorry for the noise!

F


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