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

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Wed, 11 Jun 2014 10:34:29 +0900 schrieb Akira Kakuto:

> Dear Ulrike,
> 
>> 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
> 
> In TeX Live 2015, not this year,  all of the following work on windows:
> 
> pdftex test-test
> pdftex test-t~1
> pdftex c:/somedirectory/test-t~1
> pdftex c:/somedi~1/test-t~1
> pdftex c:\somedi~1\test-t~1
> 
> (but \ in path name is not fully tested and
> I recommend not to use \ in TeX for a directory
> separator)

What happens with backslashed if a file doesn't exists? On miktex a
command like

 pdftex c:\somedirectory\unknown 

leds to the "unknown command \somedirectory" error. 


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