pathname with spaces causes problems for tcsh

Christos Zoulas christos@zoulas.com
Tue Mar 21 13:10:00 GMT 2000


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

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