James Frye wrote:
> Well, that gets us into philosophical discussions about the nature of
> reality :-) What I know ('cause I just tried it) is that if I open a
> basic command-line prompt window on Win 2K, and do a "dir \progra~1", I
> get expected output from the dir command. If instead I do "dir \Program
> Files", I get a bunch of "File Not Found" messages. To me that says that
> the "progra~1" version of the filename is at a more basic level in the
> OS.
>
> In any case, the 8.3 version works, and so Lyx (or other programs) can
> easily be ported just by substituting '\' for '/', and telling the
> Windows user which version of the names to use.
> Constructive laziness :-)
Just fanning the flames, but have you see anything on the LyX web site or
indeed in any of our official announcements saying that we officially
support Ruurd's port to Win32?
Nope, didn't think so.
Having said that, if you (that's a collective you, I guess) can provide us
with a cast-iron prescription to obtain the 8.3 version of the name from
its pretty-printing wrapper, then you may all just be in luck. Does Win32
have such a function in its API for example?
--
Angus
