[tex-live] Passing a valid Windows path and file name to *TeX in TeXlive

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:34:27 +0200 schrieb Zdenek Wagner:

> First, \input in LaTeX calls \@input which is stored plain \input. It
> allows macro expansion, so \ and ~ (because it is active) invoke expansion.
> Second, windows have short 8.3 names depending on your file system and the
> way how you call your programs, this is not a problem in pdftex but in
> Windows. It is safer to "cd" to the directory of your file and then call it
> without the path.

Well it is certainly safer to cd on a directory. But 8.3. names
doesn't work with files either: While miktex I can compile 

pdflatex test-t~1

without problems, with texlive 2014 I get "! I can't find file
`test-t'".

miktex is also able to compile a document in a longer path with ~. 


In both systems it works to use environment variables:

pdflatex %USERPROFILE%\documents\testtesttest\test



-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/