[jawsscripts] Re: Run command with spaces

If you have a space within the first six characters, you have to remove it 
first, so your example would go:

Run("C:\\twotim~1\\Delete~1.exe")

Also, if your file is the second one alphabetically in its folder, you would 
use ~2 and so on.  I don't know what would happen if you had more than 9 
files with similar prefixes though.

  Martin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jaws tech" <jawsmaster@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 11:44 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Run command with spaces


> Wow,
> That did it!!  I never would have thought of that.
>
> It also turns out that none of the long file names I was using had spaces
> within their first 6 characters.  I tried
> using the long filenames on a scenario that had spaces in the first part 
> of
> the filename and could not get it to
> work.  Just for giggles, how would the following path be handled??
>
> *Run("C:\\two time\\Delete_pdf.exe")*
>
> I tried using the following:
>
> *Run("C:\\two time\\Delete~1.exe")*
>
> and it did not work.  Sorry if I'm making more work for you but I really
> want to understand this for future
>
> scripting jobs.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Martin Slack 
> <m.g.slack@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> The Run command doesn't understand long file names.  The microsoft way to
>> shorten them is shown below (assuming each folder / file is the first one
>> in
>> alphabetic order):
>>
>>
>> Run("C:\\Docume~1\\Jones\\Applic~1\\Freedo~1\\JAWS\\9.0\\Settings\\enu\\Delete~1.exe")
>>
>>  hth
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "jaws tech" <jawsmaster@xxxxxxxxx>
>>  To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 11:10 PM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Run command with spaces
>>
>>
>> > Wow.  I am really confused by some of the syntax being given here, such
>> > as:
>> > Run("\"" + "command here" + "\"")
>> > I understand the use of double quotes within the outer quotes but this
>> > doesn't seem consistent with other
>> > languages that I've used.
>> >
>> > Anyway, I have tried several permutations based on the answers already
>> > given
>> > and none seem to work.
>> > My command is given below.  If someone could please help me understand 
>> > by
>> > putting this into the proper
>> > format it would be greatly appreciated.  It will probably sink in once 
>> > I
>> > see
>> > it done in full.
>> >
>> > *
>> >
>> > Run("C:\\Documents and Settings\\Jones\\Application Data\\Freedom
>> > Scientific\\JAWS\\9.0\\Settings\\enu\\Delete_pdf.exe")
>> > *
>> > Thanks.
>> > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Jim Bauer <holdsworthfan@xxxxxx> 
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> The string needs to be enclosed in backslash-escaped quotes
>> >> (\"<pathString>\").
>> >>
>> >> Original message
>> >> from: "jaws tech" <jawsmaster@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >> subject: [jawsscripts] Run command with spaces
>> >> date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:16:19 -0500
>> >>
>> >> >Is it possible to use the run command on an executable that is in a
>> path
>> >> >that contains spaces??  So
>> >> >far it is not working for me unless I am missing something.
>> >> >Thanks.
>> >> >
>> >> >
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