[tex-live] Unattended TL install

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2012-08-25 at 11:02:15 +0200, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:

 > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 04:12:56AM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
 > > On 2012-08-24 at 20:55:16 +0200, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
 > > 
 > >  > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 06:27:56PM +0200, Lars Madsen wrote:
 > >  > > Siep Kroonenberg wrote, On 2012-08-24 18:18:
 > >  > > >On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 05:07:17PM +0200, Lars Madsen wrote:
 > >  > > >>Siep Kroonenberg wrote, On 2012-08-24 15:04:
 > >  > > >>>On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:32:14PM +0200, Lars Madsen wrote:
 > >  > > >>>>Lars Madsen wrote, On 2012-08-24 09:49:
 > >  > > >>>>>Karl Berry wrote, On 2012-08-23 23:57:
 > > 
 > > I installed a cicuit simulator on W7 and created a few files in order
 > > to define simulations.  It worked fine.  But when I tried to run
 > > exactly the same simulations a few weeks later, the program complained
 > > that none of the files I created myself exist.  And indeed, neither
 > > dir (cmd.exe) nor the Exploder displayed them.
 > > 
 > > At a first glance I thought that the files got lost.  But Emacs in
 > > dired-mode shows them all.  Emacs even allows me to copy/move/delete
 > > these "non-existent" files.  
 > >  
 > > Hence it would be quite helpful to know whether texlive.profile
 > > exists physically.  But you can't use Windows tools in order to find
 > > out whether a file exists or not. 
 > > 
 > > Another thing I can reproduce on Windows 7 reliably:
 > > 
 > >   Go to %ProgramFiles% and run 
 > > 
 > >     zip -r foo.zip foo
 > > 
 > > The file foo.zip doesn't appear in any directory listing, neither
 > > cmd.exe nor the Exploder displays it.  But it definitely exists.  You
 > > need Emacs in order to access "non-existent" files under Windows.
 > > 
 > > Regards,
 > >   Reinhard
 > 
 > On my XP-and W7 vm's the zipfile is visible.
 > 
 > Can you check whether the hidden attribute is set for the zipfile?
 > (which would be a mystery of its own)

No, I can only check attributes of files which are displayed by
Windows.  Emacs only shows the permission bits and file owner.

The curious thing is that it worked some time ago and I didn't change
anything.  I'm using Windows only occasionally.  Most of the time I'm
using CentOS under vmware.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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