[tlbuild] symlink versus a copy of the script

[Norbert Preining]

On Mo, 28 Mai 2012, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> My question: why is mtxrun not a symlink as well, at least for unix
> platforms? I'm not sure how it works for windows where we have

No idea, history?
fmtutil is also a copy instad of a symlink.
THis popped up recently in a discussion between Peter and me but
we decided to not change anything for now.


Best wishes

Norbert
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