[tex-live] bug install-tl.zip

Lars Madsen daleif at imf.au.dk
Tue Nov 29 01:33:00 CET 2011


On 2011-11-29 01:10, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 2011-11-28 at 10:14:15 +0100, Jerónimo Leal wrote:
>
>   >  Hi,
>   >
>   >  the last line of the install-tl-advanced.bat file included in
>   >  install-tl.zip (Installing TeX Live over the Internet for Windows) is:
>   >
>   >  call "%~dp0install-tl.bat" -gui perltk%*
>   >
>   >  but the correct way is:
>   >
>   >  call "%~dp0install-tl" -gui perltk%*
>   >
>   >  Otherwise the expert installation is impossible. Please, correct this.
>
> If it doesn't work, you are obviously the first one using it.  The
> file has not been changed since July 7 2009.
>
> Why is it's wrong to specify an extension?  According to Microsoft the
> arguments are:
>
>          [drive:][path]filename [batch-parameters]
>
> Isn't "%~dp0install-tl.bat" a valid filename then?
>
> Regards,
>    Reinhard
>

does

call X

mean

start programme X, or if start programme X.bat?

because X and X.bat both exist

and Windows does not know how to start X as it is a perl programme (thus 
X.bat runs it via 'exec perl X' equivalent)







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