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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:black">Thanks for this and Akiras answer, all I needed to know<br>
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<span style="color:black">-----Original Message----- <br>
<b>From:</b> Reinhard Kotucha [reinhard.kotucha@web.de]<br>
<b>Received:</b> fredag, 08 aug. 2014, 0:39<br>
<b>To:</b> Lars Madsen [daleif@imf.au.dk]<br>
<b>CC:</b> tex-live@tug.org [tex-live@tug.org]<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [tex-live] How does pdflatex call mktexpk on windows<br>
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<div class="PlainText">On 2014-08-07 at 14:51:46 +0000, Lars Madsen wrote:<br>
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> Hi, just had an interesting isssue with a Windows user using<br>
> texstudio<br>
> <br>
> He just installed TL14 and complained that one of his old files did<br>
> no longer compile in TeXStudio<br>
> <br>
> It turns that the standard path towards the files through his<br>
> mounted file system ended up giving him a UNC path to the file (TS<br>
> shows "<a href="file://\\servername\path\test.tex">\\servername\path\test.tex</a>" in the titlebar)<br>
> <br>
> [...]<br>
><br>
> I'm suspecting a call to cmd.exe or similar, which woule explaing<br>
> the failure as cmd.exe does not support UNC paths.<br>
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Hi Lars,<br>
I assume that cmd.exe inherits its bahavior from msvcrt.dll, hence I<br>
expect that C programs which are using the fopen() function defined in<br>
msvcrt.dll don't support UNC paths either.<br>
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BTW, the source code of msvcrt.dll looks quite DOSish and has not<br>
been changed for decades. It obviously predates UNC paths.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Reinhard<br>
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