OpenEuphoria

Re: error? Print Preview

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Sep 25, 2003
• 386 views

Juergen Luethje wrote:
>>>Ah! The penny drops. It's not coping with a space in the directory
>>>name very well. Try renaming the "Print Preview" directory (with a
>>>space) to "PrintPreview" (without a space).
>>>
>>>Can anyone help here, I don't know what else MEditor should do:
>>>the variable exe is set to:
>>>C:\EUPHORIA\bin\exw.exe "D:\Print Preview\pptest.exw"
>>>but
>>>	err_msg = system_exec(exe, 2)
>>>
>>>dies with the above message. I'm sure putting the quotes round the
>>>path&name helped in the past, but they don't seem to anymore.

I tried it. As you say, the quotes work for system()
but not system_exec(). I'm calling Watcom routines for
those things. Maybe system() opens a shell that interprets
quotes on the command-line correctly.
I'll make a note of this. Thanks.

Regards,
    Rob Craig
    Rapid Deployment Software
    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com