1. long filenames under ex.exx
Hi all,
I am writing a small command line utility that will take a folder alias,
look up the path to that folder and either cd to that folder or launch
explorer at that folder.
The explorer part works fine the cd part is giving me an error with long
filenames. I am running it using ex.exe instead of exw.exe so that the
work will happen in my current dos session.
system("cd c:\\program files", 2) results in
Too many parameters - files
system("cd \"c:\\program files\"", 2) results in
Parameter format not correct - "c:\program
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
2. Re: long filenames under ex.exx
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 22:34:13 +0000, Al Gonzalez <alg at nomscon.com>
wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>I am writing a small command line utility that will take a folder alias, >look
>up the path to that folder and either cd to that folder or launch
>explorer at that folder.
>
>The explorer part works fine the cd part is giving me an error with long
>>filenames. I am running it using ex.exe instead of exw.exe so that the
>work will happen in my current dos session.
>
> system("cd c:\\program files", 2) results in
> Too many parameters - files
>
> system("cd \"c:\\program files\"", 2) results in
> Parameter format not correct - "c:\program
>
>Any suggestion would be appreciated.
>
Try "c:\\progra~1". This is what the dos dir command lists the file
as.
Pete
3. Re: long filenames under ex.exx
Al Gonzalez wrote:
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: long filenames under ex.exx
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am writing a small command line utility that will take a folder alias,
> look up the path to that folder and either cd to that folder or launch
> explorer at that folder.
>
> The explorer part works fine the cd part is giving me an error with long
> filenames. I am running it using ex.exe instead of exw.exe so that the
> work will happen in my current dos session.
>
> system("cd c:\\program files", 2) results in
> Too many parameters - files
>
> system("cd \"c:\\program files\"", 2) results in
> Parameter format not correct - "c:\program
>
> Any suggestion would be appreciated.
>
Al,
The problem is that cd is a DOS command and DOS uses the space to separate
command line parameters, so the cd C:\Program Files is interperted by DOS as
"change directory to C:\Program, what the hell is that Files parameter for?"
The Solution is to get DOS to see "C:\Program Files" as DOS does not
interpret a space in a quoted string as a parameter separator and will
interpret as "Change directory to C:\Program Files, no problem."
The correct Euphoria code is
system("cd \"c:\\program files\"", 2) -- the \" includes a literal " in
the string
By the way, it does no harm to enclose a file or folder name in quotes if it
has no spaces, so this solution will also work for variable file/folder
names.
-- MIke Nelson
4. Re: long filenames under ex.exx
Al,
I didn't follow all this quoting, but may be the following tst.exw is
useful to you?:
------------------------------------------------------------
include get.e
integer k
sequence s
-- translate this: dir "c:\Program Files\Common Files\*.*"
-- to EU-string:
s = "dir \"c:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\*.*\""
puts(1, s & "\n")
system(s,2)
puts(1,"press any key...")
k = wait_key()
------------------------------------------------------------
I assume the directory: c:\Program Files\Common Files\ exists on your
machine.
Note that this has to be run with exw.exw, it will not work with ed.exe
!
Have a nice day, Rolf
