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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/source/english/texlive-en/live.tex b/Master/texmf-doc/source/english/texlive-en/live.tex index ff7cbf47f33..5079717ab72 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/source/english/texlive-en/live.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/source/english/texlive-en/live.tex @@ -1689,12 +1689,12 @@ systems of the Windows family. Windows comes in different flavors: \begin{itemize} \item Win95, Win98 and Win\acro{ME}, which \emph{are not true multitasking, - multithreading} environments. They are the latest\Dash and hopefully - last\Dash metamorphosis of \acro{DOS}. This can be more or less proven - by the fact that when booting, the PC will load the \path|command.com| - interpreter, and if you stop the boot process at this point, you can - ask for the current (\acro{DOS}) version and it will answer something - like \samp{MS-DOS 7.0} (at least for the old versions of Win9x). + multithreading} environments, but rather updated incarnations of + \acro{DOS}. This can be more or less proven by the fact that when + booting, the PC will load the \path|command.com| interpreter, and if + you stop the boot process at this point, you can ask for the current + (\acro{DOS}) version and it will answer something like \samp{MS-DOS + 7.0} (at least for the old versions of Win9x). \item Windows \acro{NT}, which is a new operating system written from scratch, capable of true multitasking behavior, and including many high level features. @@ -1891,11 +1891,11 @@ equivalent of Unix hard links for executable files only under Win32. \begin{itemize} \item \cmdname{kpsewhich} is the tool of choice to debug any -problem. Unfortunately, \cmdname{kpsewhich} outputs debug information -to stderr, and the older Windows consoles do not know how to redirect stderr -to a file. (NT and Windows 2000 consoles know how to do that. But -the trick will work for any console.) For diagnostic purposes you can -temporarily set an environment variable (in a \acro{DOS} box): +problem. However, \cmdname{kpsewhich} outputs debug information to +stderr, and the older Windows consoles do not know how to redirect +stderr to a file. (Windows NT and later do support redirections, but +the trick below will work for any console.) For diagnostic purposes you +can temporarily set an environment variable (in a \acro{DOS} box): \begin{verbatim} SET KPATHSEA_DEBUG_OUTPUT=err.log @@ -1905,13 +1905,11 @@ You can also set the debug level: SET KPATHSEA_DEBUG=-1 \end{verbatim} -If you want to redirect stderr to stdout, which is not possible -Windows, then do: +Similarly, to redirect stderr to stdout: \begin{verbatim} SET KPATHSEA_DEBUG_OUTPUT=con: \end{verbatim} This way you can capture both stdout and stderr in the same file. - \item Assuming the installation has been done in \path|c:/TeX|, check the following values: \\ {\small |