Problem formatting Python docs with MikTeX

[Michael Abbott]

Michael Abbott <michael.g.abbott at ntlworld.com> wrote in
news:Xns9150BE43AA185michaelrcpcouk at 62.253.162.108: 

> luecking at uark.edu (Dan Luecking) wrote in
> news:66e0420f.0111051008.11b30844 at posting.google.com: 
> 
>> 
>> It would seem you have two choices:  ...
>> 2. Use a command line option. Quoting from the MiKTeX 2.1 manual: 
>>        The command-line option --include-directory=folder allows  you
>>        to extend the input search path for one invocation of TeX. 
> 
> Aha!  I should have spotted that (I can't find *anything* in Windows
> help file format documents...)
> 
>> I can't immediately check if this option was available before version
>> 2.1. 
> 
> Well, 2.1 will do just fine for me, thanks very much!


Hmm.  Well, now I have to hack mkhowto.  This begs an interesting question: 
how do I detect whether I'm running MikTeX or something else?  

Seems a pity that key command line options aren't also standard for TeX 
programs.