Re: [Chicken-users] windows shell problem

[felix winkelmann]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Lars Nilsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:14 AM, felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The handling of backslashes as escaping characters is not the problem,
>> it seems. If I pass this string (verbatim, just like it is printed here) to
>> system(3):
>>
>> "c:\home\chicken-trunk\bin\csi" -bnq -e "(require-library setup-api)"
>> -e "(import setup-api)" "c:\...some...path...\defstruct.setup"
>>
>> I get an error message that tells me that the program
>>
>> "c:\home\chicken-trunk\bin\csi" -bnq -e ""
>>
>> (sic) can not be found.
>
> Perhaps you could try the short-name paths in Windows, like
> c:\home\chicke~1\bin\csi, without the quotes around it.
>
> If that works, perhaps use GetShortPathName() to automatically find
> out what the "short" path is for a "full" path.

Hey, this might be part of a solution. But what about spaces in
pathnames (where the filename part is <7 characters)?


cheers,
felix