OpenEuphoria

Re: exw.exe shell problem

• Posted by Brian Jackson <bjackson at 2FARGON.COM> Mar 22, 2000
• 390 views

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:15:23 +0100, =?iso-8859-2?B?qWtvZGE=?=
<tone.skoda at SIOL.NET> wrote:

>It displays this error message:
>Can't open C:\EUPHORIA\psamples\euphoria.exw
>when i want to run
>file C:\EUPHORIA\psamples\euphoria editors\wee\Wee.exw
>from within Explorer.
>*.exw extensions are connected to be opened with exw.exe.
>What's wrong?
>
>If I open Wee.exw with ed.ex and run it, the error is gone, it runs normal.
>

This is a Windows long-filename problem.  You're  file association probably
looks something like this:

c:\euphoria\bin\exw.exe %1

What you need to do is enclose the %1 (and %2, %3, etc. if present) in
double quotes like this:

c:\euphoria\bin\exw.exe "%1"

That will fix your problem.

Brian