Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 19:34:17 05/14/00
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On May 13, 2000 at 09:15:10, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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...) Your old-timer prejudices are showing. ;-) (By that, I mean that a path with a space in it, namely "c:\program files\...", exists on just about every windows 9x/nt/2000 machine there is, and it only looks silly if you're not used to it!) Yeah, one of my attempts was to escape spaces with a \, a la some unix shells. No dice. Ah well, I got around it with only minor bletcherousness. Dave
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