From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2004-10-29T04:04:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Execution and dos path woes

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Karl von Laudermann wrote:

> `"C:\Documents and Settings\kvonlaudermann\My Documents\foo.exe"
> "C:\Documents and Settings\kvonlaudermann\My Documents\foo.cfg"`

how about

"C:\Documents and Settings\kvonlaudermann\My Documents\foo.exe" "C:\Documents and Settings\kvonlaudermann\My Documents\foo.cfg"

....no single quotes?

> - Change the working directory to the executable's directory so that I
> don't have to specify a path and quote the executable name.
>
> - Change the working directory to the file's directory so that I don't
> have to specify a path and quote the config file name.

you have Dir::chdir?

> Any thoughts?

install linux or cygwin?  just kidding ;-)

if soft links work on windows you may be able cd to a tmp dir and set up links
for the exe and/or cfg  - just be sure to remove them in an ensure block.


cheers.

-a
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