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Started by Jareds411 November 08, 2004 05:19 PM

3 comments, last by smart_idiot 19 years, 5 months ago

Jareds411

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November 08, 2004 05:19 PM

I have a line of code as such: system("edit C:\\My Documents\\test.txt"); The problem is, it doesn't see the space. How do I get it to use the space between My and Documents?

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November 08, 2004 05:24 PM

well, normally at the command line you could wrap the entire path in quotes, but since you're already inside a string literal, try

system("edit \"C:\\My Documents\\test.txt\"");

if that doesn't work, try escaping the space with '\ ' (not sure if that will work, either)

It's been a long time since I've seen a DOS or Win32 box and/or made system calls on it, but I'm pretty sure the first solution I suggested should work.

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grekster

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November 08, 2004 05:29 PM

DOS has a 8.3 limit on name lengths, so I think something like "C:\MY DOC~1\TEST.TXT" should work (cant quite remember though). This is because DOS truncates longer dir names to an 8 charater length (the .3 is for file extensions) and adds ~1 (or ~2, ~3 if theres more than one with the same first 6 characters).

Hope that helps, sorry if it doesnt (or is a load of BS).

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domstyledesign

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November 08, 2004 06:08 PM

Quote:Original post by grekster
DOS has a 8.3 limit on name lengths, so I think something like "C:\MY DOC~1\TEST.TXT" should work (cant quite remember though). This is because DOS truncates longer dir names to an 8 charater length (the .3 is for file extensions) and adds ~1 (or ~2, ~3 if theres more than one with the same first 6 characters).

Hope that helps, sorry if it doesnt (or is a load of BS).

it's all good stuff. the older versions of dos limited file and folder names to 8 chars and no spaces.

so

c:\my documents
could be accessed as
c:\mydocu~1

...oh the nostalgia

smart_idiot

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November 09, 2004 01:35 AM

Try

system("edit C:\\My\\ Documents\\test.txt");

or

system("edit \"C:\\My Documents\\test.txt\"");

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