[PD-dev] Tcl exec vs. Microsoft filenames

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

This is win32.  rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler doesn't like  
"file:C:/Program%20Files" from my tests.  This is Microsoft we are  
talking about, they do things their own way, standards be damned.

.hc

On Jan 17, 2006, at 1:26 PM, B. Bogart wrote:

> yuck, URIs don't have spaces, you put one in a web-page you its  
> replaced
> with %20 in the URI.. I guess you could have to replace spaces with %20
> and see if that works.
>
> Try just opening the file in a browser and note the URL it uses to  
> open it.
>
> I assume this happens on win32, but its been too long for me to know...
>
> .b.
>
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> In u_main.tk, in the procedure menu_openhtml, this little snippet of
>> code does not work when there is a space in the file name (i.e.
>> C:/Program Files/pd/doc), but works fine when there are no spaces:
>>
>>           exec rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler \
>>                 [format "file:%s" $filename] &
>>
>> This opens HTML, etc from the menu/help browser, so it would be most
>> helpful to have it working.  I have tried a number of things to no   
>> avail.
>>
>> Any Tcl-meisters want to take a stab?  Matju?
>>
>> .hc
>>
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