Issues with tinytex downloads

[John Collins]

Actually, in my experience, the old API does handle long filenames.  The 
problems I have seen all arise when filenames contain non-ASCII characters that 
are outside the current system code page.  When that happens, the API reverts 
to using short filenames.  E.g., on my Windows 11 system with system code page 
1252, that happens when Perl scripts deal with files whose names containing 
Cyrillic characters.

I think it was this issue that Norbert was referring to as possibly being the 
cause of Eli's problem.

John

On 2/3/23 5:38 AM, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am not a Windows expert but I see a potential problem not only with
> the user name. Windows have two APIs for file access. All GUI apps use
> the new one hwich has just a few limitations on file names. The old
> API is retained for compatibility with the old DOS where file names
> were limited to 8.3 US-ASCII (with forbidden character such as *, ?,
> space etc). If a name did not fit to this rule, Windows created an
> alias name from the first 6 characters followed by ~1, ~2, ~3 etc to
> make it unique. I see names with ~1 even in other path elements which
> could mean that you run the program in an evironment using the very
> old API.
> 
> Zdeněk Wagner
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> pá 3. 2. 2023 v 8:55 odesílatel Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info> napsal:
>>
>> On Thu, 02 Feb 2023, Eli Holland wrote:
>>> Drive/2022-2023/2023 Winter/educ260b/pset3/analysis/C:\Users\Lil'
>>> Chunky\AppData\Roaming\TinyTeX\tlpkg\gpg/pubring.kbx': No such file or
>>> directory
>>
>> What is your Windows user name?
>>
>> It seems it is not only normal characters ...
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Norbert
>>
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