Akira Kakuto
11/06/2014
to Martin, tex-live
Dear Martin Heller,
Thats good news. How about
Long path names
pdftex \\?\some long path\test.tex
and UNC paths
pdftex \\server\share\test.tex
All is supported, but use / instead of \.
In the case of path names with spaces, quotation is needed.
If you don't use 8.3 names, they should already work in
TeX Live 2013/2014:
pdftex "c:/some dir/some file.tex"
pdftex //server/share/test.tex
pdftex "//server/share/some dir/sample text.tex"