Subject: Re: pathname with spaces causes problems for tcsh
From: [email-masked] (Christos Zoulas)
To: [email-masked], Steve Kelem <[email-masked]>, Cygwin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:09:26 -0500

On Mar 21, 12:52pm, [email-masked] (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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