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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