From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com, Steve Kelem , Cygwin Subject: Re: pathname with spaces causes problems for tcsh Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:10:00 -0000 Message-id: <200003212109.QAA25555@hrothgar.gw.com> References: <20000321205201.25071.qmail@web112.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-03/msg00504.html On Mar 21, 12:52pm, earnie_boyd@yahoo.com (Earnie Boyd) wrote: -- Subject: Re: pathname with spaces causes problems for tcsh | Pathnames with spaces are a problem, period. By the time that pushd got the | argument the backslashes had been removed and pushd passed to setenv more than | one argument thus the complaint. | | You'll have to modify the source of tcsh to fix this problem. | | Earnie. | | P.S.: This problem would exist on UNIX if the directory contained spaces. No it would not. chdir("foo bar") works fine as well as setenv/putenv("foo bar", "bar baz"). The problem is in the way the interface call to the win32 setenv is implemented. christos -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com