Re: [Lynx-dev] how to associate file types with applications?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:

> At 06:40p -0500 03/12/2005, Thomas Dickey didst inscribe upon an electronic 
> papyrus:
>
> > On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
> >
> > > Going back to Unix <g>, what if there are spaces in the application 
> > > pathname?
> > > Do they get encoded/escaped? If so, what method is used?
> >
> > Lynx attempts to quote tokens when building a shell command.
> > The given example would be a problem since lynx cannot tell if
> >
> >         /program files/bin/foo
> >
> > is intended to be two tokens or one.
>
> So, um, what is the answer? How to reference an app name containing spaces?

Putting quotes around the full pathname seems to work.

        "/program files/bin/foo"

(Lynx doesn't try to put backslashes before the quotes).

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