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[Karsten Tinnefeld]

> > > I use miktex, which does not allow the, er, simple argument style to
> > > pltotf, etc.  is 

> > This is bourne shell "sh" style syntax. To get a working shell for Windows 
> > (that can do more things than command.com or cmd.exe under nt, no, that 
> > *can* do things instead of), install cygwin that comes with a bash
> > (an extended "sh"), see
> >   http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/
> 
> that's exactly what I use.  what I wonder is:  will the above invocation
> pass the correct arguments to pltotf and vptovf?

Write a shell script to find out:
----8<---
#!/bin/bash # echoargs.sh
echo "$@"
----8<---

for f in *.pl
do
    echo "With parameter »$f«:"
    path/to/echoargs.sh $f `basename $f .pl`.tfm
done

Read the man page bash(1) for more about parameter processing.
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Karsten Tinnefeld                       tinnefeld@ls2.cs.uni-dortmund.de
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