On Apr 03, 2007, at 4:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Apr 03, 2007, at 21:09 UTC, Norman Palardy wrote: > >> The ShellPath for a folder item includes escaped characters so those >> won't work. > > Are you sure? I would expect that to work (for a function that > wants a > Unix path).
Yeah. I just tried several calls and one work with the escaped characters and do work with them unescaped. it was just spaces but .... >> I can just rip the \ out, but I'm concerned that may not give me the >> proper path to pass to a C function. > > If the C function wants a Unix path without escaped characters, then > you'd have to actually unescape them. That's tedious but not > difficult > -- they're just an Octal representation of the actual byte codes, > IIRC. I may simply do that Good thinking I had hoped there was a quick API call but I don't see one _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
