On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Paul Millar wrote:
I didn't. (and it isn't escaped: think Windows rather than *nix)
Sorry, I can't. Wine is as close to Windows as I ever got. I'll think GCOS-8 or MVS if you like, but I don't think it will help.
This command line is _from_ MS's setup.exe calling another program acmsetup.exe. I didn't choose to have the quote marks around the D:\office\ bit. Setup.exe doesn't do _any_ escaping. It's one of those unfortunate things that, in this case, a non-escaped string looks like an escaped one. If it didn't, we'd get away with the current command line parsing.
Okay, that makes a difference. But you did put in those funky 'a a' and '"b "B' things, no?
Trying (and succeeding, to some extent ;) to get setup.exe working.
With the single quotes stuff, I was trying to show that there's a space at the end of the command line. This turns out to be irrelevent, but I thought it worth showing it.
If its too confusing, do sed -e "s/'//g" < email and be done with them :^)
Singlle quotes are very useful and not awfully confusing. What is confusing is the Windows "cammand line" 8-D.
Nope. Setup.exe passed the command line with something that _looks_ like its escaped. Wine's current behavour assumes command lines are escaped and acts accordingly, thus it mangled the command line.
Okay. How would it be if we provided for a trailing backslash to not be interpreted as an escape? I am afraid if we rip out all escaping and interpretation of escapes, we are going to make Wine more difficult to use as a *nix program, which of coourse it is.
Its an awkward command line. I think it illustrates the problem with escaping double quotes, because everything gets messed up. With the fix, everything behaves "correctly", and the two extra arguments 'a a' and 'b B' are passed to acmsetup.exe correctly (without the offending double quotes).
The code here doesn't normally see quotes, single or double, after the shell is done, but intuits that they were there if it sees spaces in a *NIX argv string, so it puts them back when pasting the line back together.
I'm trying to fix an inconsistency. The problem is we're currently mixing *nix-style command line (which _require_ double quotes to be escaped) with Windows-style command lines (which have _no_ escaping). The only way you can have the two mixed together is if you remove the possibility of having double-quotes in an argument.
'fraid it can't be wrong. Its what setup.exe does and it works under Windows. If we want to support everything in Windows, we have to support this too.
Wine is already better than Windows. Now we just have to get a few obscure features to work.
Also, (please) correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK there is no way of putting an escaped double quote into an argument within Windows. It doesn't do escaping, so any " is treated as the start of a quoted region.
Because of this "blah" is perfectly valid in Windows, but wrong on a *nix cmd line.
That's what I was afraid of. \ is handled correctly unless it comes before " at the end of a string, I think.
Well, more "D:\office\", but unfortunately Windows (or at least setup.exe) doesn't do it that way.
The whole thing was inside '', so you didn't need to escape , unless it comes before " or so, I think.
Cheers,
Paul.
Lawson
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