Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>, <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-Id: <200003212109.QAA25555@hrothgar.gw.com> From: christos AT zoulas DOT com (Christos Zoulas) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:09:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20000321205201.25071.qmail@web112.yahoomail.com> from Earnie Boyd (Mar 21, 12:52pm) Organization: Astron Software X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(4.pl1)+dynamic 20000103) To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com, Steve Kelem <kelem AT adaptivesilicon DOT com>, Cygwin <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com> Subject: Re: pathname with spaces causes problems for tcsh On Mar 21, 12:52pm, earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com