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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 12:52:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: pathname with spaces causes problems for tcsh
To: Steve Kelem <kelem AT adaptivesilicon DOT com>,
        Cygwin <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>, christos AT zoulas DOT com
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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.

--- Steve Kelem <kelem AT adaptivesilicon DOT com> wrote:
> I'm running tcsh 6.09.00 from the Cygwin 1.0 release on NT 4.0 SP6.
> When I type
> pushd /c/My\ Download\ Files/Cygnus/Xfree/
> it responds:
> /c/My Download Files/Cygnus/Xfree /
> setenv: Too many arguments.
> % which pushd
> pushd: shell built-in command.
> % pwd
> /c/My Download Files/Cygnus/Xfree
> 
> This indicates that it works, but the complaint is odd.
> 
> Steve Kelem
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> tel;work:408-335-2718
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