Why you are not simply using Shell? Jussi
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:38 AM, John Rose <[email protected]>wrote: > Apologies. I missed out the gksudo in my last message: > > The following works OK: > sPath = "/home/john/Temp orary/q w.desktop" > sLogPath = "/home/john/Temporary/Log.txt" > Wait 1 > sCommand = "gksudo " & "desktop-file-install " & " " & > Shell$(sPath) & > " >/dev/null 2>" & Shell$(sLogPath) > hProcess = Shell sCommand > Do > Wait 0.1 > Loop Until hProcess.State <> Process.Running > > But the following comes back with the help lines for gksudo i.e. where > it does not understand the rest: > sPath = "/home/john/Temp orary/q.desktop" > Exec ["gksudo", "desktop-file-install", sPath] Wait > PS If I change sPath to not have a space in the directory (e.g. using > Temporary) but having a space in the filename (e.g. q w.desktop) then I > get the same. > > -- > Regards, > John > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan > _______________________________________________ > Gambas-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
