If one supplies a filename on Windows as a command, then Windows will edit the supplied file with
the registered editor.
For html files this is the default browser. Entering merely the following file names in a command
line window and pressing return after each one, will cause each html file to be loaded and displayed
in the default browser:
* submitInput.html
* "submit input.html"
* "submitInput_(ibm-search9)_20220505_172034.html"
Note the usage of quotes around the last two file names which make this work for these file names in
a Windows command line window.
---
Having a Rexx program that gives the following commands does not always work:
* address system "submit input.html"
o does not work, yields a Windows error (because command is not quoted):
'submit' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
* address system """submit input.html"""
o works
However, it seems that if the filename contains parentheses address supplies
the wrong data.
* address system """submitInput_(ibm-search9)_20220505_172034.html"""
o does not work, yields the same Windows error althoug the command got
quoted:
'submitInput_' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Using the filename without the parentheses, but e.g. space instead, works:
* address system address system """submitInput_ ibm-search9
_20220505_172034.html"""
o works
---
So something goes wrong when a command containing parentheses is used in this
case.
Here a trace i output:
133 *-* address system qu(fn)
>V> FN => "submitInput_(ibm-search9)_20220505_174548.html"
>A> "submitInput_(ibm-search9)_20220505_174548.html"
>F> QU => ""submitInput_(ibm-search9)_20220505_174548.html""
>>> "*"*submitInput_(ibm-search9)_20220505_174548.html*"*"
'submitInput_' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
+++ "RC(1)"
134 *-* trace n
The routine qu() encloses the file name in double quotes. The file exists, one can manually get
Windows to load it by doing a copy and paste of the quoted command:
"submitInput_(ibm-search9)_20220505_174548.html"
However, address does not work in this case, so something seems to go wrong passing that particular
command on to Windows.
Maybe I am doing something wrong, hence asking before filing a bug.
---rony
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