Re: texi2dvi: set -e, use tar

[Karl Berry]

    Can you please describe the situation where texi2dvi is run on a
    directory tree like the comment above suggests?  I didn't think this
    could happen.

I believe a LaTeX document might be set up that way.  However, perhaps
cp -pr would be simpler.

    The problem with this replacement is that on non-Posix platforms it
    requires yet another ported utility (Tar) 

Which is everywhere, right?  I find it quite hard to imagine a system,
even MS-DOS, which has sufficient support to run texi2dvi (e.g., has
tex), but lacks tar.

    and a very reliable support in the shell for Posix-style
    (command...) semantics.

It's a pretty basic shell construct.  Either the shell is implemented or
not.  If it's not, I doubt texi2dvi will run at all.  Heck, it makes use
of tons of user-defined functions now, which are a lot more obscure
feature than | and &&.

Unless you're saying you know it doesn't work in your shell, but I doubt
that's the case.


I'm most concerned by the set -e, myself.

Best,
karl