[tex-live] problems with spaces under windows

[T T]

On 2 July 2011 02:42, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
> On 2011-07-01 at 10:09:40 +0100, T T wrote:
>
>  > That was meant for the list...
>  >
>  >
>  > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>  > From: T T <t34www at googlemail.com>
>  > Date: 30 June 2011 20:07
>  > Subject: Re: [tex-live] problems with spaces under windows
>  > To: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com>
>  >
>  >
>  > On 30 June 2011 16:51, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > > Hello,
>  > >
>  > > My previous report about hanging installation is not reproducible, but
>  > > the following problem is. The installation into path with spaces works
>  > > fine, tlmgr --help, "tlmgr search" all work fine, but "tlmgr install
>  > > whatever" reports the following
>  > >
>  > > c:\>set PATH="C:\Program Files\TeX Live\bin\win32";%PATH%
>  >
>  > Why, oh why, do you stick quotes, where they don't belong?
>  >
>  > > c:\>tlmgr install mpost
>  > > tlmgr: package repository http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/tlpretest
>  > > '""C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>  > > operable program or batch file.
>  > > package mpost not present in package repository.
>  >
>  > And that's what you get as a result...
>
> Why are the quotes disallowd here?  Are there any rules?

In principle, no, but expect your software to launch rockets then ;)

Cheers,

Tomek