[PD] spaces on paths

[Pall Thayer]

On mac osx you use a \ to escape the spaces, if I recall correctly.

Pall

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Johannes Taelman" <Johannes.Taelman at rug.ac.be>
To: <enrike at ixi-software.net>
Cc: <pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: [PD] spaces on paths


> hi enrike + list
>
> I think you can work around this problem in windows by using the legacy
> dos (8.3 characters) filename. You can find the 8.3 name with dir (with
> some option).
>
> This is off course a "dirty" solution and it's only valid on windows. I
> wished there was a general character escape mechanism in messages in PD.
>
> best regards,
>  j#|@
>
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 enrike at ixi-software.net wrote:
>
> > hi all
> >
> > i have to send to PD from another program the path of a sound files on
my
> > hard drive . The problem comes when there are spaces either on the
> > foldernames or file names.
> > PD doesn't recognise it as a whole thing but as different items
separated my
> > spaces.
> >
> > is there anyway to solve this?
> >
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