Re: [avrdude-dev] [bug #6764] -U syntax doesn't allow full paths in Windows

[E. Weddington]

On 25 Nov 2003 at 23:39, Joerg Wunsch wrote:

> As E. Weddington wrote:
> 
> > Patch looks good. Tested ok. I read flash to a file containing a drive
> > letter and colon with spaces in the filename, and it worked.
> 
> Fine, I only made a dry-run test (using -F and a ficticous
> non-existent programmer on my test machine), but deemed that to be
> enough for a filename parser test.
> 
> > The docs should definitely say something about this.
> 
> Sure, I only wanted to get opinions for the patch first.

Looks great!
 
> I wouldn't even restrict that to Windows users in the docs, just
> mention that pathnames that contain a colon require the trailing
> format to be specified.
> 
> If at all, the EXAMPLES section could list an appropriate
> example.
> 
> I'm willing to commit that (including the not yet existent doc
> update) unless anyone objects.

Go ahead. Thanks for developing a patch for this so quickly!

Eric