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Re: pathname with spaces causes problems for tcsh
- To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com, Steve Kelem <kelem at adaptivesilicon dot com>, Cygwin <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: pathname with spaces causes problems for tcsh
- From: christos at zoulas dot com (Christos Zoulas)
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:09:26 -0500
- Organization: Astron Software
On Mar 21, 12:52pm, earnie_boyd@yahoo.com (Earnie Boyd) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: pathname with spaces causes problems for tcsh
| Pathnames with spaces are a problem, period. By the time that pushd got the
| argument the backslashes had been removed and pushd passed to setenv more than
| one argument thus the complaint.
|
| You'll have to modify the source of tcsh to fix this problem.
|
| Earnie.
|
| P.S.: This problem would exist on UNIX if the directory contained spaces.
No it would not. chdir("foo bar") works fine as well as
setenv/putenv("foo bar", "bar baz"). The problem is in the way
the interface call to the win32 setenv is implemented.
christos
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