Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:05:58 05/15/00
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On May 14, 2000 at 22:34:17, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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 Spaces in filenames was a stupid idea. I want to parse a list of filenames... now I can't. Because some filenames look like 2 filenames, since whitespace has _always_ been a delimiter. And windows doesn't quote the space in any way to make it clear it is part of a single filename, rather than a delimiter for two filenames... ugh...
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