Hamilton, William wrote:
> There's also short filename substitution. "C:\Documents and Settings\foo"
> can be replaced with "C:\docume~1\foo". In general, you take the first six
> non-space characters and append "~" to it. I've never run into a
> situation where was anything other than 1, but
> From: John Machin
> On 21/05/2007 11:30 PM, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
> > I am trying to install Python from sources in my home directory on a Mac
> > cluster (running MacOS X 10.4.8). The path to my home directory contains
> > a blank, and since the installation procedure insists on getting an
> > ab
On 2007-05-22, Konrad Hinsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 21.05.2007, at 21:11, Stargaming wrote:
>
>> You could give /foo/bar\ baz/ham or "/foo/bar baz/ham" (either
>> escaping
>> the blanks or wrapping the path in quotation marks) a try. I can't
>> verify it either, just guess from other ter
On 22.05.2007, at 00:34, Greg Donald wrote:
> On 5/21/07, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Is there not a similar trick on MacOS X?
>
> It's called a symlink:
>
> ln -s /Users/gdonald /foo
Right, but since I have no write permissions anywhere except in my
home directory (whose path alr
On 21.05.2007, at 21:11, Stargaming wrote:
> You could give /foo/bar\ baz/ham or "/foo/bar baz/ham" (either
> escaping
> the blanks or wrapping the path in quotation marks) a try. I can't
> verify it either, just guess from other terminals' behaviour.
I tried both already, but neither one works
On 5/21/07, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there not a similar trick on MacOS X?
It's called a symlink:
ln -s /Users/gdonald /foo
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On 21/05/2007 11:30 PM, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
> I am trying to install Python from sources in my home directory on a Mac
> cluster (running MacOS X 10.4.8). The path to my home directory contains
> a blank, and since the installation procedure insists on getting an
> absolute path for the prefix,
Konrad Hinsen schrieb:
> I am trying to install Python from sources in my home directory on a
> Mac cluster (running MacOS X 10.4.8). The path to my home directory
> contains a blank, and since the installation procedure insists on
> getting an absolute path for the prefix, I cannot avoid ins
