Asger Ottar Alstrup wrote:
> Angus Leeming wrote:
>> Also, I found that we are unable to launch any executables as
>> C:\Program Files\LyX\bin\foo.exe because the executable cannot be
>> quoted. Hence the new version of clean_dvi.py on the wiki.
>>
>> Yes, Windows is weird.
>
> Hu?
>
> "C:\Program Files\LyX\bin\foo.exe" "my argument" "is the disco king"
>
> will work.
But neither of these will (taken from clean_dvi.py):
dt2dv = 'C:\Program Files\LyX\bin\dt2dv.exe'
dt2dv_call = '%s -si "%s"' % ( dt2dv, outfile )
dt2dv_stdin = os.popen(dt2dv_call, 'w')
dt2dv_call = '"%s" -si "%s"' % ( dt2dv, outfile )
dt2dv_stdin = os.popen(dt2dv_call, 'w')
The only thing that works here is to add 'C:\Program Files\LyX\bin' to the
PATH and use
dt2dv_call = 'dt2dv -si "%s"' % outfile
dt2dv_stdin = os.popen(dt2dv_call, 'w')
which is simpler and cleaner anyway :)
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Angus
