[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #629: WinGRASS: spaces in pathnames

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#629: WinGRASS: spaces in pathnames
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  Reporter:  hamish        |       Owner:  grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  new                      
  Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  6.4.0                    
 Component:  Installation  |     Version:  6.4.0 RCs                
Resolution:                |    Keywords:  wingrass, msys           
  Platform:  MSWindows XP  |         Cpu:  x86-32                   
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Comment (by cnielsen):

 Bad news about the spaces...

 In the new wingrass release (6.4.0rc5 later today) I've updated msys.bat
 to:

 ...{{{ start "MSYS 1.0" "%WD%rxvt" }}}...

 I can't think of a way the "dir /x" fix could be used within the installer
 to adjust things to the 8.3 path names, but if someone else can I'll
 implement it.

 The empty grass dir is a mount point for the install directory and allows
 the grass with msys shortcuts to be executed with {{{msys.bat
 /grass/bin/grass64 -wxpython}}} etc. I tried quotes in the fstab file but
 it doesn't work, which means that the grass with msys shortcuts won't work
 either if installed in a path with spaces.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/629#comment:7>
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