[tex-live] can't spawn? Why not?

[Robert J. Cristel]

T T wrote:
> 2009/2/25 Robert J. Cristel <rcristel at sympatico.ca>:
>> C:\pf\texlive\2008>tlmgr update --all
>> Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at
> 
> What do you get from:
> 
>     tlmgr --version
> 
> Current revision on tlnet is 12152. If you have an older one, please
> update with:
> 
> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008/update-tlmgr-latest.exe
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tomek
> 
> 
C:\pf\texlive\2008>tlmgr --version
tlmgr revision 12152 (2009-02-12 
13:08:37 +0100)
tlmgr using installation: C:/pf/texlive/2008
TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) 
version 2008
texlive-20080903

C:\pf\texlive\2008>

Boldly taking matters in my own hands 
while awaiting your always prompt reply, 
I admit that I did place a spare copy of 
the file cmd.exe in the directory
c:\pf\texlive\2008\bin\win32
for good measure.