[PD-dev] Tcl exec vs. Microsoft filenames

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 17, 2006, at 3:07 PM, Martin Peach wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>>
>> Tried that, no luck.  rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler interprets  
>>  the " as a character and gets confused because it doesn't know how  
>> to  handle "file: URI types.
>
>
> Of course, that's why you should try format <"file:\"%s\"" $file>  
> instead of <format "\"file:%s\"" $file>
> the quoted string is just <%s>, the path.


Tried both of those, no luck.  Sometimes, I get an error, other times  
it silently fails.  I haven't tried the -shortnames option, that might  
work.  But I won't have access to a Windows PC again until Friday  
night.

If any of you uses Windows, you can easily edit the file yourself to  
try out these ideas.  The file is pd/bin/pd.tk.  Search for rundll32,  
that's the line in question.

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