Using tlmgr.bat under bash on MS-Windows

[Philip Taylor (Hellenic Institute)]

On 22/11/2021 17:01, Philip Taylor (Hellenic Institute) wrote:
> On 22/11/2021 16:23, Jim Diamond wrote:
>
>> Way Back When there was (apparently) a package called pdfopen or
>> pdfclose which would help people work around MS's intransigence.
>
> Still there, Jim, in C:\TeX\Live\2021\bin\win32.  Also "pdfdde" which 
> is, I think, slaved by both.
>

> C:\TeX\Live\2021\bin\win32>pdfdde --help
> Usage:
>         pdfopen  --file <filename> [--page <page>]
>         pdfopen  [--page <page>] <filename>
>                        Opens <filename> (at page <page> if available)
>                              in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
>         pdfclose --file <filename>
>         pdfclose <filename>
>                  Closes <filename> in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
>         pdfclose --all
>                  Closes all documents in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
> Beware: only documents opened by `pdfopen' can be closed
>         by `pdfclose'.
> Option:
>                  --rx  : Prefer the server Adobe Reader X.
>                  --ax  : Prefer the server Adobe Acrobat X.
>                  --rxi : Prefer the server Adobe Reader XI.
>                  --axi : Prefer the server Adobe Acrobat XI.
>                  --rxv : Prefer the server Adobe Reader XV.
>                  --axv : Prefer the server Adobe Acrobat XV.
>                  --r10 : Same as --rx.
>                  --a10 : Same as --ax.
>                  --r11 : Same as --rxi.
>                  --a11 : Same as --axi.
>                  --r15 : Same as --rxv.
>                  --a15 : Same as --axv.
>
> If you see a message 'Cannot contact a server.'
> you have to specify the DDE server name in a file
> `pdfddeservername.txt' which is in a directory
> where pdfdde.exe exists.
>
> C:\TeX\Live\2021\bin\win32>