[OS X TeX] path name

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 16.01.2006 um 12:03 schrieb Friedrich Vosberg:

> Because if I have to save a file into a directory containing an  
> ampersand in its name (Procter & Gamble), the command produces an  
> error.
>
> How must the command be modified to avoid this behaviour?

& needs to become \& ... otherwise the shell, in which the conversion  
is done, interprets the '&' as the end of the command and as a  
request to do this conversion work in the background.

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Mit friedvollen Grüßen

   Pete

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damit sie keine Früchte trägt. (Jacques Tati)


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