[tex-live] How to do the following?

[Frank Küster]

David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> wrote:

> Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> writes:
>
>> $ etex \&latex "\"file with spaces\""
>> This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
>>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>> entering extended mode
>> (./file with spaces.tex
>> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
>> [....]
>
> It is nothing that earlier LaTeX versions will like (and of course, it
> uses the wrong search paths for TeX input files): I am trying to
> figure out a way to call LaTeX from AUCTeX, a TeX shell with minimum
> likelihood of failure.

Cannot the search path be adjusted by using an additional -progname
switch?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)