[tex-live] Problems with TL2014 Windows command line environment

[Philip Taylor]

keithpickering . wrote:

> So I'd like to suggest that the TL command line environment no longer
> use \Windows\system32 as a default directory, but use the user's home
> directory instead.

Reported previously [1]; no response received.
Philip Taylor
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On 05/07/2014 13:10, Philip Taylor wrote:

 > I thought to experiment with this, but it fails in various ways in
 > TeX Live 2013 as summarised below :
 >
 > 1) The TeX Live command prompt opens in C:\Windows\System32; this is
 > a crazy place in which to open, since write permission is not granted
 > thereto.
 >
 > 2) Because write permission is not granted, I am told :
 >
 >  > ! I can't write on file `test.log'.
 >  > (Press Enter to retry, or Control-Z to exit
 >
 > When I then enter <Ctrl-Z>, "^Z" is echoed but nothing else happens.
 > If I then follow <Ctrl-Z>L with <Enter>, I then receive an "*" prompt,
 > so "exit" has still not occurred.
 >
 > I then try "\end", TeX proceeds further, but still does not exit.
 > Finally I try yet another "\end" (both of the preceding being
 > terminated by <Return>), and finally TeX dies.
 >
 > NOTHING to do with the original problem/report/diagnosis, but
 > an indication, I would suggest, that TeX Live 2013 behaves
 > incorrectly when a TeX Live 2013 command prompt is opened
 > (inappropriate current directory), and (b) the diagnostic
 > "Enter [...] Control-Z to exit" does not lead to the
 > expected behaviour (programme exit) when <Ctrl-Z> is entered.
 >
 > Philip Taylor
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 >> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
 >> Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
 >>
 >> C:\Windows\system32>xelatex --jobname=test \documentclass{article}
 >> This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-0.9999.3 (TeX Live 2013/W32TeX)
 >>  restricted \write18 enabled.
 >> entering extended mode
 >> LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
 >> Babel <3.9g> and hyphenation patterns for 78 languages loaded.
 >> ! I can't write on file `test.log'.
 >> (Press Enter to retry, or Control-Z to exit; default file extension is
 >> `.log')
 >> Please type another transcript file name: \usepackage{fontspec}
 >> \begin{document}
 >>  hello öäü \end{document}^Z
 >>
 >> *\end
 >> d:/TeX/Live/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
 >> Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
 >> d:/TeX/Live/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
 >> \end
 >>  TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000].
 >> \end #1->\csname end#1
 >>                      \endcsname \@checkend {#1}\expandafter \endgroup
 >> \if at e...
 >> *> \end
 >>
 >> No pages of output.
 >> Transcript written on \usepackage{fontspec}.log.