>
> 1) Is there a workaround or some way to manipulate how quotes are handles.
> Guess some way to execute a raw command line would be enough.
>

Here is some example code you could use to create processes directly on
Windows:

https://gist.github.com/ihnorton/82dc5b41a537de710ab2

2) Is this a bug in Julia.
>

Known issue, more or less. We are somewhat fighting against libuv's
attempts to be extra-helpful here. I'm not sure what is the best way to
improve this.

(see boatload of semi-related discussion, starting here:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl/pull/211#issuecomment-51562782)





On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:02 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I currently try to make the LaTeX.jl package from rened windows friendly.
> However I run into problems because of julias command interplation.
>
> I try to open a pdf file in some pdf viewer. In windows you can do that
> with following command
>
> start "" SOME_DOCUMENT.pdf
>
> However spawn(`start "" $pdfname`)
> will result in
>
> start '' 'SOME_DOCUMENT.pdf'
>
> Double quotes have been replaced by single quotes and the string was also
> encapsulated by quotes (looks like because of the presence of backslashes).
>
> So my questions are:
> 1) Is there a workaround or some way to manipulate how quotes are handles.
> Guess some way to execute a raw command line would be enough.
> 2) Is this a bug in Julia.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Florian
>

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