Re: texmfstart texutil

[Hans van der Meer <hansm@science.uva.nl>]

On Jun 9, 2006, at 17:21, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Hans van der Meer wrote:
>> On Jun 9, 2006, at 12:49, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hans van der Meer wrote:
>>>
>>>> In order to purge the temporary context files I did (throught an
>>>> alias)
>>>> texutil --purge
>>>> This worked fine.
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>>> texutil will go away (i.e. be a wrapper only); the functionality
>>> has been moved to texexec.rb, ctxtools.rb, pdftools.rb, rlxtools.rb
>>> etc
>>>
>>> it's now:
>>>
>>> ctxtools --purge
>>>
>>
>> For those on UNIX(-like) systems that have only texmfstart.rb enabled
>> as executable (chmod a+x texmfstart.rb) this will not work as none
>> the ruby scripts in the distribution seem to have their execution
>> bits set.
>> The next seems mandatory if only texmfstart is enabled: texmfstart
>> ctxtools --purge


> on unix, one needs to copy texmfstart.rb to texmfstart and copy it to
> some bin path
>

Copying is imho not necessary. As long as the execution bits are set  
any file can be made to execute by a shell. What to do is determined  
by the shebang line.
I am working in MacOSX which is UNIX under the hood and  
"texmfstart.rb" is excuted without the need for copying.

Hans van der Meer