[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #637: Problems with paths in the TCL/TK Windows GUI

[GRASS GIS]

#637: Problems with paths in the TCL/TK Windows GUI
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  Reporter:  marmai        |       Owner:  grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org    
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  new                          
  Priority:  critical      |   Milestone:  6.4.0                        
 Component:  Tcl           |     Version:  6.4.0 RCs                    
Resolution:                |    Keywords:  Tcl Window Gui path, wingrass
  Platform:  MSWindows 2K  |         Cpu:  Unspecified                  
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Comment (by hellik):

 Replying to [comment:7 hamish]:
 > > Replying to [comment:5 hamish]:
 > > > Ok, so the code we need to check then is the bit that launches
 > > > e.g. dbf.exe child from lib/db/dbmi_client/start.c  ???
 >
 > Replying to [comment:6 glynn]:
 > > I don't think so. The backslashes are getting lost.
 >
 > (comment:4 of this ticket reports that fixed now)
 >
 > > Windows' command interpreter doesn't interpret backslashes, so
 > > this looks more like Tcl's doing. It looks like something is
 > > (implicitly or explicitly) using "eval" or "subst" on the string,
 > > causing backslash-<char> to be replaced with <char>.
 >
 > maybe fixed by the new `eval [list ]` stuff?
 >
 >
 > anyway I was more thinking about the ''Bad file descriptor'' problems of
 unquoted spaces from https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/629#comment:5,
 not the missing '\'s.
 >
 >
 > Hamish

 WinVista 32
 Grass65-svn - self-compiled today in the osgeo4w-tree
 nc-dataset

 i can confirm the problem
 i'm not able to select a vector/raster map in the tcltk-gui, but it's
 possible to enter the name for displaying the maps

 helli

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