Bob,
I am going to be dealing with the problem of spaces in file names
across platforms and also with the problem of file names being too
long in my project. Can you summarize what you have figured out (with
the help you have gotten). Do you have any sample code snippets?
stacks? or examples?
I tried to follow but got lost somewhere. I know we are talking about
replacing " " with "\" but where do these work? in unix/mac/win from
a shell or command line or from REV path tools?
Thanks
Tom
On Feb 21, 2006, at 1:10 PM, Bob Warren wrote:
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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