[tex-live] Which release ?

Philip TAYLOR P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Thu Jul 31 19:18:05 CEST 2008



Manuel Pegourie-Gonnard wrote:

> AFAIK, the manual has been named live.pdf (and .html etc) for
> years, this changed only recently and is not a rule to encode the release's
> year.
> 
> What I was suggesting in my previous message (mistakenly sent off-list,
> sorry) is that you just open this documentation, which should be somewhere
> in your tree (the precise location may vary, texmf-doc didn't allways
> exist), so use texdoc or locate or whatever to find it, and look at the date
> on the front cover of the doc. It obviously mentions the release.

Brilliant, exactly the solution I was hoping for
(and it works on each system I have so far tried).
Many many thanks, Manuel.

** Phil
--------
P.S. Now if only Live.pdf could be associated
during TeX Live install with

	Start/Programs/TeX Live/Help/About ...

** Phil.


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