<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Folks,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yesterday I updated TeX Live 2019 to the latest stuff. This morning a Mac user wrote complaining that TeX Live could no longer process LaTeX source files with filenames containing spaces.</div><div class="">I tried one of my files. Sure enough. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I created a minimal document with only a few lines, and a space in the file name. It typeset fine using BasicTeX-2019, which was not recently updated. It failed to typeset on the full TeX Live -2019, which I updated yesterday. Here is the console message:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019) (preloaded format=pdflatex)</div><div class=""> restricted \write18 enabled.</div><div class="">entering extended mode</div><div class="">(./A File.tex</div><div class="">LaTeX2e <2019-10-01> patch level 2</div><div class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls</div><div class="">Document Class: article 2019/10/25 v1.4k Standard LaTeX document class</div><div class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size11.clo))</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">./A File.tex:6: LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.</div><div class="">Type H <return> for immediate help.</div><div class=""> ... </div><div class=""> </div><div class="">l.6 \begin{document}</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">--------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The log file is empty.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Then I tried updating TeX Live again five minutes ago. There were new updates. The situation did not change.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Richard Koch</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:koch@uoregon.edu" class="">koch@uoregon.edu</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>