Hi!
Did anybody ever tried to port texvc on Windows??
I did not, but trying to emulate it, I found no way to handle correctly the
character + in a command line
argument. This is quite annoying for math formulae!
My emulation is via a php script. The problem could be because of DOS or of
php. I tried to get some help on the windows-php forum, and the answers I
got are not conclusive: it could then be a DOS issue, in which case the
present approach for the interface between outputpage.php and texvc will be
difficult to port on Windows...
I doubt it's a DOS problem -- some DOS commands require passing of + on the
command line (attrib and copy for example). Try typing "echo +" if you don't
believe me.
In addition, the php function escapeshellarg does not
seem to be adapted to
Windows, either.
My original approach, using a file as interface, has not such problem.
It might be a PHP bug. I couldn't find any mention of it in
http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.php . You might have to
just think of a workaround. Maybe you can try using W32api to call
GetCommandLineA, if you're brave.
-- Tim Starling.
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