Re: updating context on Ubuntu 6.06

[Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk>]

>>      ("$1""$2" ... )
> coincidentaly i read this in the bash manual today but i was puzzled by 
> it not being
> 
> ("$1" "$2" ... ) # separated by spaces 
> 

Sorry, my typo.

> i didn't follow this thread but i assume that at some point the
> outcome will be summarized; keep in mind that patched need to work
> for windows as well (differ ent quoting)

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?

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).

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.

-Sanjoy

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