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Subject: Re: crafty, epdpfga bug?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:15:10 05/13/00

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On May 13, 2000 at 07:36:59, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>tried to run
>
>epdpfga "c:\documents and settings\dave\my documents\epd.epd" "c:\documents and
>settings\dave\my documents\out.epd"
>
>but crafty v17.10 complained:
>
>This command takes two parameters
>EG fault: a problem occurred during epdpfga processing
>
>Presumably the difficulty is with the spaces in the path (why I quoted them --
>when I didn't, that gave an error too).  I tried to escape each space instead:
>
>epdpfga c:\documents\ and\ settings\dave\my\ documents\epd.epd c:\documents\
>and\ settings\dave\my\ documents\out.epd
>
>but that didn't work either.  Unfortunately, FAT32 doesn't support symbolic
>links, so this is kind of a pain.  In the DOS days I would have used subst to
>create a new drive letter pointing to c:\doc&set\dave\my_doc but I'm not sure if
>that's still around under NT.
>
>Dave


That comes from Steven's code.  I assume he doesn't handle spaces correctly,
since this was written before windows and the rather ridiculous concept of
spaces in a file name (yes, I know, you can put _any_ character in a filename
in unix, if you know how.  You can also put your hand in a blender...)



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