[tex-live] How to do the following?

[Zdenek Wagner]

2006/10/3, David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to call some executable, preloading a format and running a
> file that might contain spaces in the file name.
>
> latex &format "file name with spaces"
>
> does not work whereas
>
> latex "file name with spaces"
>
> would actually work, but not preload a format.
>
I think that ampersand is the source of problem because it has special
meanings in various shells and must be escaped. Some shell would
require latex \&format ...
The standard shell in OS/2 requires latex ^&format ...
Look into the manual of your shell.


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