#637: Problems with paths in the TCL/TK Windows GUI
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Reporter: marmai | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: critical | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: Tcl | Version: 6.4.0 RCs
Resolution: | Keywords: Tcl Window Gui path, wingrass
Platform: MSWindows 2K | Cpu: Unspecified
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Comment (by glynn):
Replying to [comment:5 hamish]:
> > It's only necessary to convert / to \ if the path is being
> > passed to Windows' command interpreter. The rest of the OS
> > understands both / and \.
>
> Ok, so the code we need to check then is the bit that launches e.g.
dbf.exe child from lib/db/dbmi_client/start.c ???
I don't think so. The backslashes are getting lost. Windows' command
interpreter doesn't interpret backslashes, so this looks more like Tcl's
doing. It looks like something is (implicitly or explicitly) using "eval"
or "subst" on the string, causing backslash-<char> to be replaced with
<char>.
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