this is odd, i just tried to make a test case with a path with a space in it
it loaded the netlist file just fine dave, could you please make the directory structure you have before and run pcb in verbose mode $ pcb --verbose <your file name here> i care about the lines like this Load: Calling LoadFrom(Netlist, /Users/hardkrash/Desktop/Projects/ Boards/AnalogPower Amp/pcb_AnalogPowerAmp.net) Action: LoadFrom(Netlist,/Users/hardkrash/Desktop/Projects/Boards/ AnalogPower Amp/pcb_AnalogPowerAmp.net) Steve On Jul 6, 2007, at 1:30 PM, John Doty wrote: > > On Jul 6, 2007, at 2:19 PM, David Kerber wrote: > >> There's no reason to worry about quotes in a folder name; they're >> illegal in >> file and path names in all versions of windows, > > Yes, but they're perfectly OK on Mac and Unix. There's no universal > delimiter to tell a program where a pathname ends in a string > containing more than just the pathname. Space is commonly used as a > delimiter, so it is best to avoid it in names. > >> as are slashes, >> back-slashes, and a few other characters that I can't recall at the >> moment. >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DJ Delorie >>> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 4:13 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Empty netlist file! >>> >>> >>>> Should I have known not to put a space in my directory >>> names? Is this >>>> something that can be fixed in 'pcb' easily or is it not >>> worth fixing? >>>> A lot of the folders on my Mac and linux box have spaces in >>> them and >>>> programs seem to be able to find them. >>> >>> Most unix users know to avoid spaces in file names, but Mac >>> and Windows users seem to not avoid them. It *should* be a >>> simple matter of proper quoting in various places, but then >>> you'd want to be able to have directory names with quotes in >>> them, etc. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> geda-user mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user >>> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> geda-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > > John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. > http://www.noqsi.com/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
