Colin Nielsen wrote: > These failed: > export GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=/c/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe > export GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe (no > quotes)
This is down to the "export" command terminating the value at the first space. > export GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=c:\Programs\Firefox\firefox.exe > ("c:ProgramsFirefoxfirefox.exe: command not found") This is down to the shell interpreting the \ character. Both of the above issues go away if you use single quotes, e.g.: export 'GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=c:\Programs\Firefox\firefox.exe' Note that I'm not concerned with the syntax for specifying the variable's value, but the syntax of its arguments. > However, for osgeo4w (non-msys) by putting the following in the > etc/ini/grass.bat: > This worked (though it didn't work above): > set GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=/c/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe Windows' "set" command treats everything after the = as the value, regardless of any spaces, whereas bash's "export" command terminates the value at the first unquoted/unescaped space. As for the /c/... syntax, that will work if $GRASS_HTML_BROWSER is being used in a bash script (e.g. g.manual), but won't work natively. > These did not work: > set GRASS_HTML_BROWSER="c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" > set GRASS_HTML_BROWSER="c:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\iexplore.exe" The "set" command will treat any quotes literally, as part of the variable's value. > set GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=c:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\iexplore.exe I suspect that this is a case of the setting setting being "correct" rather than MSys-compatible. > set GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=c:/Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer/iexplore.exe > set GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=/c/Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer/iexplore.exe Forward slashes and MSys' /c/... syntax won't work in Windows' command interpreter. MSys' bash will convert filename syntax if it recognises it as such. > In sum, only a unix path with no quotes or space escapes will work. > This path format does not work in msys. There is no path format that I > found that works in both, clearly a problem. Indeed. This is why we're giving up on MSys for GRASS 7. It's impossible to specify filenames which will work both in both MSys and elsewhere. > > For opening URLs: > > > > �...@echo off > > rundll32 url.dll,OpenURL "%1" > > > > This also appears to work with filenames, with both forward and > > backward slashes. However, it returns immediately, while "cmd /c ..." > > waits for the command to terminate. > > I put the above into a batch file and it worked with the URL format, > unix and windows, but g.manual wouldn't run with this batch file with > it set as the value for GRASS_HTML_BROWSER Can you modify the script to print its arguments? And g.manual to print out $GRASS_HTML_BROWSER. -- Glynn Clements <gl...@gclements.plus.com> _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user