[PD-dev] Tcl exec vs. Microsoft filenames

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, 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?

Me?

I uninstalled Windows in 1994 or so.
It never ran so well on my DRDOS/DESQview anyway.

I never used Microsoft's Mosaic fork either.

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