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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