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Bug#570376: texdoc barfs if BROWSER has multiple colon-separated commands



Control: found 570376 2019.20190710-1

Am 18.02.2010 um 13:44 teilte Julian Gilbey mit:

Hi Julian,

I'm going through some old bugs.

> I try running the command "texdoc eqnarray" and I get the error
> message:
> sh: links:lynx: not found
> 
> This is because my BROWSER environment variable contains "links:lynx",
> as allowed in the specification of the BROWSER variable.
> 
> So texdoc should parse this variable (and perhaps others), using the
> first one available.
> 
I can still reproduce the issue and I have some comments. I used the
documentation progress20030701, which is in texlive-latex-extra-doc.

1. What kind of specification are you referring to? Is this a Debian
specification, if not where can I find it?
2. In addition to variable browser you can set the var BROWSER_texdoc,
which specifies just one browser program. This way you can make texdoc
work w/ changing the value of BROWSER.

Hilmar
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