[tex-live] texdoc problem

[Victor Ivrii]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Dan Luecking <luecking at uark.edu> wrote:
>
> I have just updated today, but the problem occured before
> the update as well.
>
> Version information:
>  * texdoc --version reports 0.80
>  * texlive.infra: revision 20975
>
> System: Windows XP Professional, SP3
>
> The problem:
> The command
>    texdoc cm-super


I confirm exactly the same on Mac OSX, and Linux-64 and I believe
Heiko reported few days ago a similar problem with some other package
(all on texdoc v. 0.80) Meanwhile texdoc -l (or -s) works in such
cases properly


Victor


> produces an error:
>    C:\TL\2010\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:596:
>    c:/TL/2010/texmf/scripts/texdoc/view.tlu:65: attempt to index a nil value
> (all on one line).
>
> Trying with quotes:
>    texdoc "cm-super"
> has the same result, as do the following two quoting/escaping
> methods provided by my command shell:
>    texdoc `cm-super`
>    texdoc cm^-super
> The abbreviation "texdoc super" had the same result.
>
> Other tries (below) produce the following:
>   Sorry, no documentation found for ....
> where "..." is the argument attempted:
>   texdoc 'cm-super'
>   texdoc cm\-super
>   texdoc cm--super
>   texdoc cmsuper
>
> I tried other packages. These work:
>    texdoc cm-unicode
>    texdoc unicode
> while these produce the same "nil value" message:
>    texdoc cm-lgc
>    texdoc lgc
>
>
> Dan
>
>
> Daniel H. Luecking
> Department of Mathematical Sciences
> Fayetteville, Arkansas
> http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/iaq.html
>



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