Dan Bron wrote:
> It's nice that wget and unzip are included with J for Windows users, but 
> there's a small bug in the implementation.  Whereas  
> ~system\extras\util\pacman.ijs  puts quotes around the unzip command:
> 
>       UNZIP=: '"',(jpath '~install/tools/zip/unzip.exe'),'" -o -C '
> 
> it does not do so for the wget command:
> 
>       HTTPCMD=: jpath '~install/tools/ftp/wget.exe -O %O -o %L -t %T %U'
> 
> which causes problems when the path to the J folder includes spaces (say it's 
> installed in C:\Program Files).  Specifically, PacMan cannot operate because 
> when it trys to call wget the OS responds with 
> 
>       'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, 
> operable program or batch file.
> 
> But wait, there's more.  The call will /still/ fail, due to cmd.exe's arcane 
> option parsing.  To wit:

This problem was already raised by Ric and discussed in the forum. The
next beta should work correctly.

See: http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/beta/2007-September/002338.html
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