[EXT]Re: A bug in install-tl-windows.bat

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 09:13:59AM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote:
> 
> On 10/04/2025 08:56, Siep Kroonenberg via tex-live wrote:
> > This email originated from outside Royal Holloway. Be cautious using links, attachments and QR codes.
> > 
> > 
> > [...]
> > > > This is a valid string comparison.
> > > Well, perhaps I am misunderstanding how it is intended to be used, but it is
> > > not accepted by my 64-bit Windows 11 system.  What follows is a transcript
> > > of my test —
> > > 
> > > d:\Users\Primary user>set ver_str = .
> > There should be no spaces around '='.
> 
> Seemingly false, Siep.  See following transcript —
> 
> > d:\Users\Primary user>set ver_str = "assignation operator surrounded
> > by spaces"
> > 
> > d:\Users\Primary user>set
> > ALLUSERSPROFILE=d:\ProgramData
> > APPDATA=d:\Users\Primary user\AppData\Roaming
> > [...]
> > USERPROFILE=d:\Users\Primary user
> > ver_str = "assignation operator surrounded by spaces"

C:\Users\siepo>set ver_str = "assignation operator surrounded by spaces"
C:\Users\siepo>echo %ver_str%
%ver_str%
C:\Users\siepo>echo --%ver_str %--
-- "assignation operator surrounded by spaces"--
echo %ver_str%
%ver_str%
echo --%ver_str %--

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg