[25980] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.3.8: gnumeric
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Aug 23 12:28:12 2004
Message-Id: <200408231627.i7NGRtG1005576@dit.mit.edu>
To: kchen@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[25970] in Athena bugs"
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:27:55 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
cc: alexp@mit.edu
cc: bugs@mit.edu
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
Hi,
You wrote to bugs:
>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.
Jacob was correct in his subsequent analysis. I changed the $* to "$@"
in the launch scripts and it should work now.
Alex Prengel
MIT Academic Computing
UNIX Software Support
