[tex-live] problems with spaces under windows
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sat Jul 2 03:42:10 CEST 2011
On 2011-07-01 at 10:09:40 +0100, T T wrote:
> That was meant for the list...
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: T T <t34www at googlemail.com>
> Date: 30 June 2011 20:07
> Subject: Re: [tex-live] problems with spaces under windows
> To: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com>
>
>
> On 30 June 2011 16:51, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > My previous report about hanging installation is not reproducible, but
> > the following problem is. The installation into path with spaces works
> > fine, tlmgr --help, "tlmgr search" all work fine, but "tlmgr install
> > whatever" reports the following
> >
> > c:\>set PATH="C:\Program Files\TeX Live\bin\win32";%PATH%
>
> Why, oh why, do you stick quotes, where they don't belong?
>
> > c:\>tlmgr install mpost
> > tlmgr: package repository http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/tlpretest
> > '""C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> > operable program or batch file.
> > package mpost not present in package repository.
>
> And that's what you get as a result...
Why are the quotes disallowd here? Are there any rules?
Regards,
Reinhard
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