Re: [Dev-luatex] again problems ..., os.spawn and spaces in names

Taco Hoekwater writes:

I am not very surprised. Windows shell handling has always seemed to me like a kludge on a klugde on a kludge on top of MSDOS 5.0.

That makes it sound like MSDOS 5.0 would not be a kludge on top of MSDOS 1.0 on top of CP/M (where the surprisingly long-lived 128 character command line originates). Turtles all the way down... -- David Kastrup