Undesirable nul file with tlmgr.bat under Windows

[Udo Z]

Hi Torsten,

Sysinternals ProcMon (direct download:
https://live.sysinternals.com/Procmon.exe) might be very useful for finding
out where this comes from. Launch ProcMon, perform the tlmgr update, stop
the capture, and search for 'nul' in the trace.

The trace will likely be very large but if you need help reviewing it, use
7-Zip to compress it, upload it somewhere, and provide the link.

Best regards,

Udo

On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 11:00 AM Torsten Schuetze <torsten.schuetze at gmx.net>
wrote:

> Hi Norbert,
>
> On 14/07/2019 06:23, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > Can you please try:
> > - create a temporary directory, empty
> > - change into this directory
> > - call
> >       tlmgr --repository
> https://ftp.rrze.uni-erlangen.de/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/ update --list
> >
> > After this, do you see the "nul" file?
>
> no nul file.
>
> > If not, then do
> >       tlmgr --repository ctan update --list
> > After this, do you see the "nul" file?
>
> Yes. nul file created. -rw-rw-r--+ 1 schuetze None 9189 Oct 29  2016 nul
>
> Contents  CTAN starting page.
>
> Does the updater use the cygwin wget or its own wget? I suppose the latter.
>
> Ciao,
>
> Torsten
>
> PS: I used tlmgr.bat instead of tlmgr. Otherwise I would have to create
> a tlmgr script file as Josef Kleber suggested. But I don't see that this
> solves my problem, it's just a shortcut.
>
>
>
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