[25970] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.3.8: gnumeric
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin W Chen)
Fri Aug 20 20:07:07 2004
Message-Id: <200408210007.i7L074af022060@scyther.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 20:07:04 -0400
From: Kevin W Chen <kchen@mit.edu>
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
System name: scyther.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.3.8 (with mkserv)
Display type: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420] (rev a3)
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: sawfish
What were you trying to do?
Open a file whose name has a space in it from the command line with:
gnumeric EC\ Summer\ Assignments.xls &
-- or --
gnumeric "EC Summer Assignments.xls" &
What's wrong:
gnumeric attempts to open "Assignments.xls" and fails to open the
correct file.
What should have happened:
gnumeric should have opened the file I requested.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
This works fine on a Debian machine I have with gnumeric installed.
