[Cialug] OT: Interesting "feature" in Windows

[Nathan C. Smith]

And that was all we got from Tim as agents from Redmond beat down the door
and took him prisoner.
 
-Nate


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From: Tim Wilson [mailto:tim_linux at wilson-home.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:47 PM
To: cialug at cialug.org
Subject: [Cialug] OT: Interesting "feature" in Windows


I ran across a problem today, that I thought some of you might enjoy.  A
customer was running a product we talk to in a directory like "C:\Program
Files\Foo Bar\Foo2".  In this directory, my app runs a batch file.  The
easiest way to execute the batch file from a C program is to call system(),
right?  That's great, except it has a problem with spaces.  No problem, I'll
put escaped double quotes around the argument to system().  That too, did
not work.  After doing some Googling, I found something that sounds like
others are experiencing (someone created a bug 

-- 
Tim 

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