[tex-live] pretest in winXP

[Dan Luecking]

Hi. First the good news:

I installed the TL 2010 pretest in Win XP wuthout problem. I used
tlmgr to remove some packages and install others without problems.
I uninstalled the whole thing without problems and reinstalled with
the saved profile without problems. I processed several old tex
files, all without problems.

The bad news:

I ran across only one actual problem, which seems to date back
at least to TL 2009. There are several perl scripts in
texmf-dist/scripts/ that are named without any extension and
runscript seems unable to make use of them. For example, running
   pst2pdf filename
produces a message from runscript that no suitable script can be
found. Renaming texmf-dist/scripts/pst2pdf/pst2pdf to pst2pdf.pl
allows the command to succeed.

This is undoubtedly only a windows problem. Nevertheless, here is
a list of all the scripts in texmf-dist/scripts/ I have discovered
with this problem (though not all will work correctly even after
renaming):

PERL SCRIPTS:
bundledoc/bundledoc
bundledoc/arlatex
fig4latex/fig4latex
findhyph/findhyph
fontools/afm2afm
fontools/autoinst
fontools/cmap2enc
fontools/font2afm
fontools/ot2kpx
fontools/pfm2kpx
fontools/showglyphs
latex2man/latex2man
pkfix-helper/pkfix-helper
pst2pdf/pst2pdf
purifyeps/purifyeps
texdiff/texdiff
texdirflatten/texdirflatten
texloganalyser/texloganalyser
xetex/perl/xdv2pdf_mergemarks

PYTHON SCRIPT:
de-macro/de-macro

Regards,

Dan


Daniel H. Luecking
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Fayetteville, Arkansas
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/iaq.html