note 29997 deleted from function.system by irchtml

From: Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:11:57 +0000
Subject: note 29997 deleted from function.system by irchtml
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Note Submitter: cpmorris@hotmail.com ---- After banging my head against the wall for several hours (not consecutively thankfully), I discovered that the program execution functions do not support long file names in Windows. Either that or they do not support paths with spaces in them. For example, I was trying to call Apache's htpasswd utility to add users to an htpasswd file: c:\program files\apache group\apache2\bin\htpasswd but whenever I tried using system to call this, I got no output and an error code. So I eventually I tried this: c:\progra~1\apache~1\apache2\bin\htpasswd and it worked like a charm. Hope this helps someone.

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