<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Here is my cmd.exe log from when I opened it to when the error occurred:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#ffffff" style="background-color:rgb(0,0,0)">Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.1016]<br>(c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.<br><br>C:\Users\Frijoles con Arroz>cd Desktop<br><br>C:\Users\Frijoles con Arroz\Desktop>cd install-tl-20200820<br><br>C:\Users\Frijoles con Arroz\Desktop\install-tl-20200820>dir<br> Volume in drive C is OS<br> Volume Serial Number is EC4E-1F94<br><br> Directory of C:\Users\Frijoles con Arroz\Desktop\install-tl-20200820<br><br>08/21/2020 06:02 PM <DIR> .<br>08/21/2020 06:02 PM <DIR> ..<br>06/13/2020 03:03 PM 105,829 install-tl<br>05/31/2020 03:09 PM 4,770 install-tl-windows.bat<br>09/28/2006 11:31 AM 2,098 LICENSE.CTAN<br>11/19/2019 09:36 PM 5,267 <a href="http://LICENSE.TL">LICENSE.TL</a><br>04/06/2020 10:03 AM 350 release-texlive.txt<br>08/21/2020 06:02 PM <DIR> texmf-dist<br>08/21/2020 06:02 PM <DIR> tlpkg<br> 5 File(s) 118,314 bytes<br> 4 Dir(s) 708,200,132,608 bytes free<br><br>C:\Users\Frijoles con Arroz\Desktop\install-tl-20200820>install-tl-windows.bat<br>'""C:\Users\Frijoles' is not recognized as an internal or external command,<br>operable program or batch file.<br><br>C:\Users\Frijoles con Arroz\Desktop\install-tl-20200820></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000">I am going to investigate the solutions provided by John Frain now.</font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 2:01 PM Siep Kroonenberg <<a href="mailto:siepo@bitmuis.nl">siepo@bitmuis.nl</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 09:06:32AM -0500, Matthew Elmer wrote:<br>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>
> From: Matthew Elmer <<a href="mailto:matthewelmer@tamu.edu" target="_blank">matthewelmer@tamu.edu</a>><br>
> Date: Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 9:05 AM<br>
> Subject: Re: Unable to install TeXLive<br>
> To: Philip Taylor <<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@hellenic-institute.uk" target="_blank">P.Taylor@hellenic-institute.uk</a>><br>
> Cc: Julius Dittmar <<a href="mailto:Julius.Dittmar@gmx.de" target="_blank">Julius.Dittmar@gmx.de</a>>, <<a href="mailto:texhax@tug.org" target="_blank">texhax@tug.org</a>><br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Thank you everyone for your help. Would it be possible for me to change my<br>
> username for installation and change it back afterwards? Would it break<br>
> anything for currently installed programs? It seems as though it would be a<br>
> simple fix to allow for usernames with spaces as you just put the quotes in<br>
> and it works fine. Also very strange that Philip Taylor had no issues. Now<br>
> that I look back at the error, it seems as though the batch file attempted<br>
> to put quotes in to accommodate usernames with spaces but somehow inserted<br>
> two at the beginning and none at the end. In any case, I'll just use<br>
> Microsoft Word for now instead. I won't be able to use the templates for my<br>
> computer science course but at least there's no hacky fixes involved.<br>
> <br>
> Forwarding to texlive list.<br>
> <br>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 3:47 AM Philip Taylor <<br>
> <a href="mailto:P.Taylor@hellenic-institute.uk" target="_blank">P.Taylor@hellenic-institute.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > Julius Dittmar wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > the best fix would be to rename your account name.<br>
<br>
Although quoting rules for cmd.exe are horrible, and I am not sure<br>
whether all quoting problems with cmd.exe can be solved, a space in<br>
the installation path should not cause problems, as Philip Taylor<br>
writes.<br>
<br>
What exact error message do you get, and what exact path do you try<br>
to install to? I mean the real path, as listed by cmd.exe or<br>
powershell, which may differ from the path shown in file explorer.<br>
<br>
> > This may sound like a fix in the wrong place to you, but there's good<br>
> > reason: The texlive installer will not be the only program choking on the<br>
> > space in your account name.<br>
> ><br>
> > Spaces have special meaning in commands: They separate command arguments.<br>
> > Thus any path containing your account name (which is any path to any of<br>
> > your files) will be read as at least three different arguments instead of<br>
> > one argument combined. Any work-around making that space-containing path<br>
> > work will only be a local work-around. There will always be places where<br>
> > such work-arounds have been forgotten.<br>
> ><br>
> > In the long run, you save yourself from a lot of trouble if you change<br>
> > your login name to something without spaces (perhaps use underscores<br>
> > instead or just omit the space) and if you refrain from using spaces in<br>
> > file or directory names.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > From the perspective of a Windows 7 user :<br>
> ><br>
> > My account name, "Philip Taylor", which clearly contains an embedded<br>
> > space, causes me no problems whatsoever, either with TeX Live or with<br>
> > anything else.<br>
> ><br>
> > *Philip Taylor*<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Siep Kroonenberg<br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><b><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Matthew Elmer '22</font></b></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#990000"><b>AERO </b><i>(CSCE minor)</i></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#990000"><b>VP Internal, TAMU AIAA</b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#990000"><b>Texas A&M University</b></font></div><div><b><br></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>