<div dir="ltr">This is indeed the wrong fix at the wrong place and two wrongs do not make a right. It reminds me of the story of the drunk that lost his keys in the dark and came looking for them around the lamp-post because there was no chance of finding it in the dark.<div><br></div><div>The quotation of PATH under MS Windows is necessary not just for SPACES but for a number of other situations like for example long-path names, etc ...</div><div><br></div><div>Paulo Ney</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 12:01 AM Julius Dittmar <<a href="mailto:Julius.Dittmar@gmx.de">Julius.Dittmar@gmx.de</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">
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<tt>Hi Matthew,<br>
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the best fix would be to rename your account name.<br>
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This may sound like a fix in the wrong place to you, but there's
good reason: The texlive installer will not be the only program
choking on the space in your account name.<br>
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Spaces have special meaning in commands: They separate command
arguments. Thus any path containing your account name (which is
any path to any of your files) will be read as at least three
different arguments instead of one argument combined. Any
work-around making that space-containing path work will only be a
local work-around. There will always be places where such
work-arounds have been forgotten.<br>
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In the long run, you save yourself from a lot of trouble if you
change your login name to something without spaces (perhaps use
underscores instead or just omit the space) and if you refrain
from using spaces in file or directory names.<br>
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HTH,<br>
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Julius Dittmar<br>
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<div>Am 21.08.20 um 02:04 schrieb Matthew
Elmer:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I am unable to
install TeXLive. The error is</div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font style="background-color:rgb(0,0,0)" face="monospace" color="#ffffff">'""C:\Users\Frijoles' is not recognized as
an internal or external command,<br>
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is "Frijoles Con Arroz", but it looks like the batch file
fails to account for users with spaces in their names and I
don't know how to fix it. It's probably a simple fix though
to someone who knows what they're doing. If nothing else,
can you tell me which lines of install-tl-windows.bat I
could just hard-code the proper path into? Thanks so much!</div>
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