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

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:28:50 +0200 schrieb Martin Heller:

> Ulrike Fischer wrote, on 10-06-2014 17:47:
>>
>> In both systems it works to use environment variables:
>>
>> pdflatex %USERPROFILE%\documents\testtesttest\test
>>
> 
> That does not work for me. The environment variable is expanded by cmd 
> and then I get the same error from pdflatex
> 
> set texfileshort=c:\Docume~1
> 
> pdflatex "%texfileshort%\test.tex"

I didn't try a 8.3-variable, only a "normal" one (and I don't have
many pathes with spaces on my PC. %userprofile" doesn't have a
space). 


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Ulrike Fischer 
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