[wpkg-users] problem with %PROGRAMFILES%

[Dr. Frank Lee]

Hi EJS,

> <install cmd="%SOFTWARE%\gimp.exe  SP- /SILENT /NORESTART \
> /DIR=%PROGRAMFILES%\GIMP" />

If you leave %ProgramFiles% to be set to c:\Program Files (without the 
quotes), %ProgramFiles% will be expanded by WPKG and therefore have a 
space in it. (If you have " characters in the variable, Bad Things will 
happen generally because WPKG will treat the " characters as part of the 
file name but Windows won't.)

The solution is to have %ProgramFiles%=C:\Program Files (No quotes) and 
then to quote the file path:
/DIR="%ProgramFiles%\GIMP"

I would have the install command as:

<install cmd='%Software%\gimp.exe SP- /SILENT /NORESTART \
/DIR="%ProgramFiles%\GIMP" ' />

i.e. use single quotes for the contents of the cmd entity which leaves you 
free to include double-quotes around arguments which have spaces in.

Yours,

Frank






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