Issues with tinytex downloads

[Zdenek Wagner]

Hi all,

I am not a Windows expert but I see a potential problem not only with
the user name. Windows have two APIs for file access. All GUI apps use
the new one hwich has just a few limitations on file names. The old
API is retained for compatibility with the old DOS where file names
were limited to 8.3 US-ASCII (with forbidden character such as *, ?,
space etc). If a name did not fit to this rule, Windows created an
alias name from the first 6 characters followed by ~1, ~2, ~3 etc to
make it unique. I see names with ~1 even in other path elements which
could mean that you run the program in an evironment using the very
old API.

Zdeněk Wagner
https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/

pá 3. 2. 2023 v 8:55 odesílatel Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info> napsal:
>
> On Thu, 02 Feb 2023, Eli Holland wrote:
> > Drive/2022-2023/2023 Winter/educ260b/pset3/analysis/C:\Users\Lil'
> > Chunky\AppData\Roaming\TinyTeX\tlpkg\gpg/pubring.kbx': No such file or
> > directory
>
> What is your Windows user name?
>
> It seems it is not only normal characters ...
>
> Best
>
> Norbert
>
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