Dear Stephen,
Unfortunately, the decision whether to use spaces in folder/file names
is something that is generally out of my hands. In Windows, they are
used by all and sundry all the time, with absolutely no problem, and of
course Linux progressively tries to follow similar standards in order to
compete with Windows. Since I am producing software to work on other
people's computers rather than my own, I need to take the use of spaces
into account.
But have no fear, Dave Cope has been here! His solution of using escape
codes (i.e. "\ ") in command lines works like a charm, and in RR
programming terms (using REPLACE) it is very simple.
Regards,
Bob
Stephen Barncard wrote:
I don't think spaces in filenames or foldernames on any platform is a
good idea.
They don't work on my webservers either.
Too many platforms don't like them, especially on networks. People
have gotten used to OS's that clean up after them but filenames just
shouldn't have spaces! I've ingrained myself with no-space habits for
years. Use underscore in place of spaces.
What do you do? Rename all the files with spaces!!
sdqb
I now have an explanation as to why the shell in (Ubuntu) Linux seems
to work sometimes, but not others: the HD path to the executable for
launching MUST NOT CONTAIN BLANKS!
For example, this works like a charm:
global myVar
put "/home/bob/Desktop/folderwithnospaces/myprog" into myVar
set the defaultFolder to "/home/bob/Desktop/folderwithnospaces"
get shell(myVar)
This doesn't work at all:
global myVar
put "/home/bob/Desktop/folder with spaces/yourprog" into myVar
set the defaultFolder to "/home/bob/Desktop/folder with spaces"
get shell(myVar)
Exactly the same thing applies to the LAUNCH command.
Now what do I do?
Any ideas anyone?
Bob
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