[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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