Undesirable nul file with tlmgr.bat under Windows

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Ken,

On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, Ken Brown wrote:
> I've been casually following this discussion, as the maintainer of TeX Live
> on Cygwin, and I too agree with Reinhard.  Using Cygwin tools to install
> Win32 TeX Live is asking for trouble.

I somehow agree with you, but this doesn't enhance our understanding. I
want to know why this happened, and then give a proper solution - which
might be "just use cygwin binaries".

Best

Norbert

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