Re: problems with embedded spaces in file paths (Win32)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 13:08 15/09/2003 -0300, you wrote:
>I don't normally use Win32, but I want to convert our 4AllTeX addicts to
>TeX Live 2003.  In testing release candidates, I encountered a few
>problems with context and texexec.  The most recent tests were with the
>Sept. 5 release candidate (using the "install" CD).
>
>1.  on Win32, kpsewhich often fails to find texexec.ini.  I created a
>texexec.ini in texmf-var/context/config and verified that it is listed in
>the ls-R. My conjecture is that this failure occurs if and only if the
>final component of the nme of the current working directory contains an
>embedded space, e.g., "C:\My Documents".  Texexec takes a very long time
>to run (searching the texmf trees on an unloved and unwanted PIII 300mhz),
>so I haven't done a lot of testing/debugging.  I haven't encountered any
>other kpathsea failures.  I can work around this by tweaking texexec.pl,
>but it would be comforting to have an explanation.
>
>2.  ConTeXt texexec uses $ENV{"HOME"} to set a value in filename.tmp,
>e.g., on unix:
>
>$ cat try.tex
>\starttext
>\input story
>\stoptext
>$ texexec try
>$ cat try.tmp
>% try.top
>\unprotect
>\setupsystem[\c!gebied={/user/gwhite/}]  %---- set from $ENV{"HOME"}
>\setupsystem[\c!n=1]
>\setupsystem[inputfile=try.tex]
>\protect
>
>If, e.g. HOME="/x y", the formatted document gets an extra page containing
>"y//cont-err".
>
>On Win32, it seems common to have spaces in "%HOME%".  In particular, for
>WinXP, a value appears to be constructed by the texexec.ini binary
>(created using irun) if %HOME% is not set.  I can work around this by
>asking users to explicitly set HOME to something safe.

can you check what happens when you add "" around the path? If i'm right, 
(i'll upload new binaries when some patch is done) the win binaries now accept

\input "some path"

(not sure if \input "some path"/somefile also works; can you test that?)

Hans
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