The following 2 changes to pacman.ijs enable it to work correctly where J602 is installed to a (Windows OS) directory path containing spaces:
LINE 37 (definition of HTTPCMD & UNZIP) HTTPCMD=: jpath '~install/tools/ftp/wget.exe -O %O -o %L -t %T %U' becomes HTTPCMD=: '"',(jpath '~install/tools/ftp/wget.exe'),'" -O %O -o %L -t %T %U' LINE 345 (definition of shellcmd) shell y Becomes shell dquote y > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sherlock, Ric > Sent: Saturday, 29 September 2007 15:14 > To: Beta forum > Subject: RE: [Jbeta] Directory path issues > > --Sherlock, Ric wrote > > I installed to "C:\Program Files\j602" > > > > When I run Package Manager it asks if I want to setup the > repository > > using Internet connection now. If I reply Yes, then I get the > > following > > error: > > > > "Connection failed: 'C:\Program' is not recognized as an > internal or > > external command, operable program or batch file." > > > > I suspect this is an issue with calling the tools wget or > unzip with > > spaces in the path. > Below is the generated string that is given to spawn as a > right argument. > > cmd /c C:\Program Files\j602\tools\ftp\wget.exe -O > "C:\Program Files\j602\temp\revision.txt" -o "C:\Program > Files\j602\temp\httpget.log" -t 2 > http://www.jsoftware.com/jal/j602/revision.txt > > I have verified that the following works correctly: > cmd /c C:\Progra~1\j602\tools\ftp\wget.exe -O "C:\Program > Files\j602\temp\revision.txt" -o "C:\Program > Files\j602\temp\httpget.log" -t 2 > http://www.jsoftware.com/jal/j602/revision.txt > > Which implies it is a quotes issue. However just adding > additional quotes around the wget filename doesn't solve the > problem - get the same error as before - according to cmd /? > this is because the first and last quote characters get > stripped if there are more than two quote characters in the string. > > The following does therefore work: > cmd /c ""C:\Program Files\j602\tools\ftp\wget.exe" -O > "C:\Program Files\j602\temp\revision.txt" -o "C:\Program > Files\j602\temp\httpget.log" -t 2 > http://www.jsoftware.com/jal/j602/revision.txt"; > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
