Re: Open File Error?

[Daniel Diaz]

Hello,

this problem comes from the fact under Windows the \ char is the separator inside pathnames. Most built-in predicates handling file names call absolute_file_name/2 which computes the absolute path (resolving for instance variable substitutions, relative path like .\ and ..\, etc). Since gprolog does not yet handle wide chars when it sees a \ it treats it as a separator. Until such an extension is done there is no "clean" way to solve this. However, I'd like to provide a "not too dirty" workaround for the special case of pathnames. The easiest way I see to fix this
is to use an enviroment variable (or a Windows register key) to indicate if a \ preceded by a char >= 128 is not a separator. What do you think ?

Daniel


Yasuhisa Matsumura wrote:

Dear Prof. Daniel Diaz and other GNU-Prolog developers!

Thank you very much for your splendid Prolog compiler.

 

I would like to report the following 'BUG' (or 'Short-coming') under Windows OS.

I would be very glad as a Japanese user, if you could fix it some time.

 

Thank you very much, again.

Yasuhisa Matsumura

address@hidden

 

 

OS:  Windows Vista
GNU-Prolog version: 1.3.1

 

The Japanese Windows system encoding (= Shift_JIS) includes such a 2-byte character:

 

   '\x95\\\'  i.e.  name('\x95\\\',[149,92]).

 

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But you can NOT open the file with the file name '\x95\\\.txt', for example,

 

   test(C) :- see('\x95\\\.txt'),get0(C),seen.

 

uncaught exception: error(existence_error(source_sink,'\x95\\\.txt'),see/1)

 

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In contrast, you CAN open the file with the file name '\x95\[.txt'  i.e. name('\x95\[',[149,91]).

 

   test(C) :- see('\x95\[.txt'), get0(C), seen.

 

   C = 97     in case you wrote the character 'a' in the file.

 

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PS.　　The characters have the following appearance on Windows system:

'\x95\\\'　 =　　'表'.

'\x95\['　   =　　'票'.

But I think you cannot view the character appearance on your French or English Operating System.

 

 

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