[OS X TeX] texdoc

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Jun 15, 2017, at 9:12 AM, Christopher Skeels <Chris.Skeels at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 16/06/2017 12:06 am, "MacOSX-TeX on behalf of Herbert Schulz"
> <macosx-tex-bounces at email.esm.psu.edu on behalf of herbs at wideopenwest.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 15, 2017, at 8:56 AM, Christopher Skeels
>>> <Chris.Skeels at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>>> 
>>> That¹s disappointing to hear.  I had just convinced myself that, for
>>> whatever reason, when I updated to MacTeX 2017 I had simply failed to
>>> download the documentation.  For what it is worth, my machine at home is
>>> working fine so I was hoping that it was something specific to my office
>>> machine.  I will chase up the presence of the documentation tomorrow
>>> but, for the record, I am running MacTeX 2017 on OS X 10.12.3 (I
>>> believe, the machine in question being at work).
>>> 
>>> Cheers, Chris.
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> What do you mean by `failed to download the documentation'? MacTeX
>> installs a full TeX Live, documentation and all.
>> 
>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
> What I meant was that I have no idea what is happening but, if an error
> message is telling me that a path is leading it nowhere, then maybe its
> because there is actually nothing there.  You can file this under
> Œclutching at straws¹.

Howdy,

I don't think that's what the message is saying. I think a script (in this case one called by texdoc) is running into a problem on line 467.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)