[tex-live] TeXLive-CD/DVD (Installation)
Hans Hagen
pragma at wxs.nl
Tue May 22 09:50:05 CEST 2007
Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2007, Karl Berry wrote:
>
>
>> anyway the standard "cp" ("copy" on windows) upon the given list.
>>
>> That may be true with the Windows installer, I can't say, but it's not
>> true on Unix. We use the "lists" files to make file lists and then use
>> tar to move them wholesale, instead of invoking cp on each list.
>>
>
> Thanks, Karl. Perhaps this idea can improve things also on windows (for
> DVD).
>
>
on windows using xcopy (esp on directories) instead of copy speeds up
things
Hans
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