win32+popen4

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Fri Mar 1 06:35:01 EST 2002


Robin Becker wrote:
> 
> .
> ....
> >
> >However, if you are on a 9x platform, and quoting the command just as
> >you want the command interpreter to see it on the command line doesn't
> >work, you might just want to revert to using the short (non-space)
> >version of the name.  So in your example you would replace "program
> >files" with "progra~1" (or whatever it may be in the unlikely event
> >it's different than that).
> >
> >--
> >-- David
> this is win2k. I have tried quoting with "", but I still seem to be
> getting
> 
> no such command C:\program  etc

I'm pretty sure the last time I checked the PROGRA~1 convention still
worked on WinNT.  Are you sure this doesn't work on Win2K as well?
They're supposed to be the same thing, no?

-Peter



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