[tex-live] slight glitch on windows

Lars Madsen daleif at imf.au.dk
Fri Jul 13 12:04:39 CEST 2012


Zdenek Wagner wrote, On 2012-07-13 11:57:
> 2012/7/13 Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk>:
>> Ulrike Fischer wrote, On 2012-07-13 11:09:
>>
>>> Am Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:31:46 +0200 schrieb Lars Madsen:
>>>
>>>> I just did a test installation of TL12 on Windows 7
>>>>
>>>> I notice there is a tool in the TeX Live 2012 menu called
>>>>
>>>> TeX Live command line
>>>>
>>>> If I open that tool
>>>>
>>>> it is a standard command prompt, but the title of the window is still
>>>>
>>>> TeX Live 2011
>>>
>>> That's not a standard command prompt:  It has a changed "path" where
>>> the path TeXLive is at the start. For me as a miktex user this is
>>> very handy when I want to make tests with texlive. And I do find it
>>> very good that the title is "TeXLive" so that I don't confuse the
>>> systems.
>>>
>>>
>> does it actually start in the TL dir?
>>
> It need not start in any particular directory. The current directory
> should be the directory of your main file but it is not known by the
> system, you always have to "cd" to it. The only important thing is
> setting the PATH.
> 

on my test win 7 it starts in c:/windows/system32

hardly of particular use to any user

but then at least the user will have to learn to use cd


>> I'll test that again.
>>
>> My complaint was just the year.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> /daleif
> 
> 
> 


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/daleif


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