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progress with the various bugs I have reported concerning TeX Live
2019 (pre-test), I though that as I was in the office today I
might see whether I can replicate these problems on another Win-7
64-bit machine. I then realised that even to test the most basic
functionality (can I install to locations of my choice, can I
successfully run TLMGR as other than Administrator, are TeXdoc and
TeXdocTK functional, ...), I have to download ("Rsynch") the
entire pre-test repository.<br>
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Given that testing the infrastructure and testing the layered
products are very different exercises, might it not be better to
start the pre-test phase by populating the pre-test repository
with only the <i><b>necessary</b></i> and <b><i>sufficient</i></b>
(infrastructure) components, adding the layered products
(packages, class files, fonts, etc) only once the infrastructure
has been widely tested and proved robust ?<br>
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Philip Taylor<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Trying "TeXdoctk" after a
portable-mode install, I am told :<br>
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C:\TeX\Lambda\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:902: command failed with
exit code 1: wperl.exe
c:\TeX\Lambda\texmf-dist\scripts\texdoctk\texdoctk.pl"<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Trying to gain further insights
into the following, I though to see what options "TLshell"
would accept. As it did not seem to recognise "[-]-help" or
"[-]-?", I thought to try "TeXdoc TLshell". It said nothing.
Puzzled, I tried "TeXdoc XeTeX", which I have used many many
times with previous versions of TeX Live. Again, it did
nothing. Cany anyone offer any insights into this very
disturbing behaviour, please ? And is "TLMGR.bat" still
supported, or should it be removed from the distribution ?<br>
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Philip Taylor<br>
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Still unable to launch the TeX Live Manager (TL-2019,
pre-test) as myself (see screenshotbelow & attached); it
will launch successfully only as Administrator. Since I last
reported this during this year's pre-test phase, I have :<br>
<ul>
<li>Re-ownered C:\TeX to myself</li>
<li>Granted owner full control over C:\TeX and all
descendants thereof<br>
</li>
<li>Migrated all TeX Live installations from 2008 to 2017 to
C:\TeX\Legacy\<year> (I have no earlier
installations installed)<br>
</li>
<li>Migrated the current TeX Live installation (2018) to
C:\TeX\Live</li>
<li>Installed TeX Live 2019 (pre-test) in C:\TeX\Lambda</li>
</ul>
<p>I investigated Siep's suggestion to install TeX Live 2019
(pre-test) in portable mode but was not happy with the paths
that it proposed, and was not certain whether if I modified
those paths it would still be "portable" within the meaning
of the Act.<br>
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<p>Philip Taylor<br>
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