Re: ctxtools unix puzzles

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

plink@veribox.net wrote:
> I am getting a 648 line diff file when I compare two different 1.3.3 
> versions of the ctxtools.rb file.
>
>   
indeed, i only change numbers when i feel that there is are real changes (

> One of them, the smaller and older one, had some problems with quotes 
> around environment variables, and it couldn't really upgrade the system 
> because of a problem with unzip and execute permissions on texmfstart.rb
>
> The other one has the same problem with execute permissions on 
> texmfstart.rb, ending in the *slightly* dutchified report():
>
> unable to remak formats
>
> Or is there a way to call texmfstart.rb from the unix stub files without 
> giving it execute permissions?
>   
i dunno, but "ruby pathtotexmfstart ... " should work since then we're talking about text files

Hans 
 

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