Re^2: Problem using system to call securecrt

Also remember that windows has the tilde, which is nice for situations where spaces in filenames can become problems:

my $crtdir = "C:\\progra~1\\secure~1\\";

Update: Gellyfish is right -- it is a good idea to verify. But this is moot in light of ikegami's post.

/renz.
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Re^3: Problem using system to call securecrt by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Feb 07, 2005 at 15:40 UTC
You may not want to blindly do `<first six chars of file or dir name>~1` but check using `dir /x` what the shortened version would be. /J\	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Problem using system to call securecrt by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 07, 2005 at 15:56 UTC
No need, Perl (and `chdir` specifically) can handle long file names.	[reply] [d/l]