Re: updating context on Ubuntu 6.06

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> How does Windows quoting work?  Well, the whole story isn't needed,
> but only how would this ruby line
>
>   `kpsewhich --expand-var '$TEXMFLOCAL'`
>
> differ on Windows relative to Unix?
>   
the problem is that one never knows when the shell does things and when 
the program does ... so in order to be really sure, we need taco to look 
into the kpse source to see if ' is handled there (here they are retained)
> And the $@ -> "$@" change can be done in the Unix stubs only, so the
> change won't affect Windows (which uses .bat files and a different
> syntax).
>   

so in texmfstart:                

    f.write("#{program} #{callname} \"$@\"\012")

> The other part of the patch was changing system() to be used within an
> if instead of a rescue block, and I got the return information about
> system() from the Programming Ruby manual online.  It didn't say
> anything about it applying only to Unix, so that change should be safe
> too.
>   
will look 

Hans 

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