| Re: Automatic Debug Persepective [message #57881 is a reply to message #57625] |
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On Jan 8, 12:53 pm, Rick Towler <rick.tow...@nomail.noaa.gov> wrote:
> Three words, David. wei wu wei. That, and maybe some hot tea and quiet
> time with the dog. If you have some incense and a gong that might help.
> Anything to get you back on the path...
>
> You need to rewrite you path using the short 8.3 path notation which
> involves the tilde and numbers business. I'm sure there's a great
> description somewhere and I apologize that I don't have the time to give
> my own but the gist is that you can use "dir /x" to show the short
> format for files and folders to construct the path. In your case:
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> "C:\Program Files\ITT\IDL70\idlde\idlde.exe"
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> becomes:
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> C:\Progra~1\ITT\IDL70\idlde\idlde.exe
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> You should be able to tack "-clean" on the latter and go.
>
> -Rick
>
> P.S. The caption for your image on your homepage is quite funny in
> light of these past weeks posts.
>
>
>
> David Fanning wrote:
>> Doug Edmundson writes:
>
>>> Sorry about that! To specify options on Windows, like -clean or -nl for
>>> the locale, modify the IDL Workbench shortcut. Just tack on "-clean" to
>>> the target (but be sure to remove it later). If anyone has question on
>>> how to do this on other platforms, let me know.
>
>> Well, now this is interesting. Adding this to the shortcut
>> on my problem machine is what I tried first before. But if
>> I right-click the shortcut and choose "properties" the target
>> is listed like this:
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>> "C:\Program Files\ITT\IDL70\idlde\idlde.exe"
>
>> It HAS the quotes. If I try to stick -clean in after the .exe
>> and before the last quote:
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>> "C:\Program Files\ITT\IDL70\idlde\idlde.exe -clean"
>
>> I get a "Problem with Shortcut" error and I am told the
>> name in the target box is not valid. I can't do this.
>
>> However, if I go to my other machine, the target is similar,
>> but it does not have quotes around it:
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>> G:\Programs\ITT\IDL70\idlde\idlde.exe
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>> and I can *easily* add the -clean to this target.
>
>> Humm. This cannot possibly be a problem with spaces in file
>> names, could it? That would be too, too weird. :-(
>
>> Awaiting further instructions... :-)
>
>> Cheers,
>
>> David- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
"C:\Program Files\ITT\IDL70\idlde\idlde.exe" -clean
should also work. (note only thing inside quotes should be the path/
filename).
Bob.
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