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Subject: Re: Strange argv[]

Author: Ron Murawski

Date: 08:53:59 02/13/02

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On February 13, 2002 at 07:16:38, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:

>On February 13, 2002 at 06:03:53, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On February 13, 2002 at 05:23:50, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:
>>
>>>Hi.
>>>
>>>When I try to start a consoleprogram from CA as Winboard Engine or UCI engine
>>>the programpath is split in the argv[] (int main(int argc, char* argv[])).
>>>
>>>Ex.
>>>Winboardengine
>>>c:\Program Files\Chess Assistant6\PolarEngine.exe
>>>would give
>>>argv[0] = c:\Program
>>>argv[1] = Files\Chess
>>>argv[2] = Assistant6\PolarEngine.exe
>>>
>>>and not as from other program
>>>argv[0]=c:\Program Files\Chess Assistant6\PolarEngine.exe
>>>argv[1]=<empty>
>>>
>>>Is this an error in CA or in some common .dll files that follows
>>>Delphi-programs?
>>
>>Try:
>>"c:\Program Files\Chess Assistant6\PolarEngine.exe"
>>
>>The parser sees the white space as marking a new token.
>
>You are probably right but since I don't have the source to CA I can not change
>it :)
>It either don't allow to put "" in the filename, but this had been a little hard
>to ask all user's to do.
>
>In normale startup procedure with use of CreateProcess(...) this problem don't
>exist.
>
>It's because of this I ask if this problem is in any Delphi .dll or in CA
>itself. If it is a delphi problem a patch could maybe be found but if it is in
>CA I guess we must wait and use /switch or -switch in the meantime for all
>parameters.
>
>Some Delhi programmer out there??
>
>Odd Gunnar

I don't know Delphi, but I've gotten bitten by some
spaces-contained-in-a-pathname bugs. I usually install
to C:\Chess to avoid this problem. For Chess Assistant
perhaps you could install to C:\Chess\CA

Without the spaces the problem goes away.

Best regards,
Ron



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