[Fwd: Texexec bug]

["Gregory D. Collins" <gcollins@cs.yale.edu>]

Hello ntg-context,

I have a copy of texexec.pl dated 2002/05/04 which has a bug in it. I
use tetex under cygwin in Windows, and was having a lot of trouble
getting texexec working. The problem is as follows. There is a line in
texexec.pl:

my $dosish    = ($Config{'osname'} =~ /^(ms)?dos|^os\/2|^(ms|cyg)win/i);

The purpose of this is to find out if we are in a "dosish" environment.
This is used later:

unless ($dosish)
~  { if ($TeXFormatFlag == "&") { $TeXFormatFlag = "\\&" }
~    if ($MpFormatFlag  == "&") { $MpFormatFlag  = "\\&" } }

This breaks badly (and very confusingly) later when we do system() calls
if $SHELL=bash. I don't know if the rest of cygwin's environment
qualifies as "dosish" or not for the rest of the program, although mine
works fine if it's turned off.

Is this a known bug?

G.
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