On Jan 18, 2006, at 1:20 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I think its more of a Tcl question. The problem is that if I run this from the command line, it works fine: rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler file:C:/Program Files/pd/doc/manuals/Gem/cMatrix.html But if I do this in Tcl, it does not: set filename "C:/Program Files/pd/doc/manuals/Gem/cMatrix.html" exec rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler [format "file:%s" $filename] & Quotes don't seem to make it work either.
I don't know the intricacies of the Windows version of Tcl's exec.
Is it possible that %20 gets munged because the shell thinks it's supposed to be an argument expansion? I recall that in COMMAND.COM %20 meant like what $20 means in /bin/sh... Does the % sign have to be doubled in order to make it a literal percentsign for COMMAND.COM ?
Its not an URI, its a Microsoft format, so %20 doesn't work. It needs to be a space, so its a question of how to make Tcl handle the space properly. I think this would be a case for Tcl 8.5's {expand}. How is it done in 8.4?
.hc
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