[tex-live] bug install-tl.zip

Lars Madsen daleif at imf.au.dk
Tue Nov 29 10:22:23 CET 2011


Philip TAYLOR wrote, On 2011-11-29 01:44:
> 
> 
> Lars Madsen wrote:
> 
>> 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)
> 
> I don't think that is necessarily true, Lars :
> Windows uses and understands file associations,
> and if .PL files (or .perl files) are associated
> with (say) Active State PERL, then
> 
>     Start foo.pl
> 
>         or
> 
>     Start foo.perl
> 
> will be fully understood by Windows, and acted upon.
> 
> Philip Taylor

but install-tl has no extension!

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/daleif


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