Re: Wintel long file names

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Parsons, Rick wrote:

> The handling of Wintel long file names on the command line works
> fine. Names containing spaces enclosed with double quotes as
> normal are accepted with no problem. However the same is not
> true in the config file. The long file names are accepted, but
> ones containing spaces are not. Enclosing in quotes causes the
> entire option to be ignored. This only affects one config option
> - error-file: which can be replaced by the -f command line
> option which is acceptable (to me) as a workaround until a fix
> is available.

Many thanks for the suggestion. I will add it to the mounting list
of requests I want to deal with. I am adding these to the start
of the release notes but may split this off as a to-do list in
a separate file. I am aiming for a new release in April.

Best wishes,

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Received on Tuesday, 28 March 2000 12:17:27 UTC