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

[Martin Heller]

Akira Kakuto wrote, on 11-06-2014 03:34:
>
> 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)
>
>

Thats good news. How about

Long path names

pdftex \\?\some long path\test.tex

and UNC paths

pdftex \\server\share\test.tex