From: Soren A <soren_andersen@fastmail.fm>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANN] Re: cyg-wrapper.sh
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 15:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Xns92DFBD6228FBDsoren1Gmane@80.91.224.249> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021208193753.GA44134983@ORLYN>
Luc Hermitte <hermitte@free.fr> wrote around 08 Dec 2002
news:20021208193753.GA44134983@ORLYN:
>> > [2] This form has been privileged because of the MsWindows 9x
>> > series.
>>
>> Hmmm. If you mean that people who run Win9x are more likely to be
>> running old DOS programs that use 8.3, then ok; otherwise there's no
>> difference between NT-derived and 9x-type Windows in this respect --
>> that I know of.
>
> No. This is a scripting problem I had on MsWindows Me, and I don't
> remember any similar issue on Windows NT -- more tests should be done to
> be sure.
>
> The problem comes from pathnames having spaces. If we want to run:
> appl "c:/Program Files/foo.txt" ~/bar.txt
> The parameters should be requoted before (/while ?) running xargs. I
> haven't spent enough time to find to something that works.
Yes. I am pretty sure that you'll have the same problem with pathnames
containing spaces on NT & its derivatives, too. So having the wrapper
generate the 8.3 form of the name probably isn't a bad idea, at least as
far as this issue goes. There might be other (side) effects.
Not to seem like I am competing with you or upstaging you, Luc, but I
want to announce (bec. I am assuming the readers of this thread might
have interest) that I have done my own WWW publication about how I start
(instantiate) GVIM from Cygwin's bash shell:
http://home.att.net/~perlspinr/vim/VIMhelpers.html
It doesn't use your cyg-wrapper script because I wanted to do some more
elaborate stuff.
Readers "shopping" for a test editor to use in conjunction with Cygwin
are encouraged to check out GVIM 6.x (www.vim.org) -- it rocks. And then
use my script to run it from bash ;-).
Best,
Soren
--
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defenseless planet has my MONSTROSITY been unleashed?"
- Dr. Jumba, Disney's "Lilo & Stitch"
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-09 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-05 19:33 [ANN] cyg-wrapper.sh Luc Hermitte
2002-12-07 23:43 ` Soren A
2002-12-08 11:49 ` [ANN] cyg-wrapper.sh Luc Hermitte
2002-12-09 15:44 ` Soren A [this message]
2002-12-10 8:59 ` [ANN] cyg-wrapper.sh Matt Armstrong
2002-12-12 18:59 ` [ANN] cyg-wrapper.sh Luc Hermitte
2002-12-16 19:04 ` Matt Armstrong
2002-12-17 8:33 ` Luc Hermitte
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