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Udo Zallmann  
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 More options Oct 8 2003, 8:11 am
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: Udo Zallmann <nongam...@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 14:11:38 +0200
Local: Wed, Oct 8 2003 8:11 am
Subject: Re: windows directories containing spaces

Robert Heller wrote:
> Argg...  The 'My Documents' folder under MS-Windows is seriously bad
> news.

I wouldn't say 'news,' since it has been there for the last 8 years or
so, since the advent of Windows 95. Windows 2000 and XP just add more
spaces to the default path. ;)

> 3) Create a shortcut to 'My Documents' in the folder where you are
> running TeX/LaTeX.  The shortcut name should not include spaces (Duh!).

Folders cannot be accessed programmatically through a Windows
shortcut. And Windows filesystems do not support links either. (Well,
NTFS does hardlinks, but it is quite unclear how to create them...)

udo
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