TeX-LIVE bug reports

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:17:11 +0100 (BST)


Michal Sevcenko SITE writes:
 >  1) if I install the distribution to the directory, whose name contains 
 > space(s) (e.g. "C:\Program Files\TeX"), distribution does not work 
 > properly. E.g. typing "kpsewhich latex.fmt" does not report any occurence 
 > of such a file. If I use MS-DOS equivalent name (e.g. "C:\Progra~1\TeX"), 
 > it works OK.
I thought that this was documented somewhere? its a well-known problem

 >  2) some batch files in $(TEX)\bin\win32 (e.g. amstex.bat) use UNIX line 
 > breaks (line feeds only). This is OK under NTs, but 98s (and maybe 95s too) 
 > cannot run such batchfiles. If I fix these files manually, they work OK.
yes, this was embarassing. we found it a couple of weeks ago. its OK
now

sebastian