[Tex/LaTex] Check if TeX installed is MikTeX

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Is there a way to check from command line whether tex and other commands belong to MiKTeX or some other distribution (I want to only (require 'tex-mik) in Emacs initialization if it's needed)?

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You can use pdflatex for that. If you call pdflatex --version you get which distribution is used, in my case TeX Live:

pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2014/W32TeX)

kpathsea version 6.2.0

Copyright 2014 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).

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Or you can use the latex command, which works the same.

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I had the same issue as Nikhil, saw that the answer was given in the comment from Ulrike Fischer buried near the bottom, and thought I would put it together here with necessary modifications:

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