Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 70770 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2000 05:03:21 -0000 Received: from mailhost3.lanl.gov (128.165.3.9) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 10 Aug 2000 05:03:21 -0000 Received: from cic-mail.lanl.gov (cic-mail.lanl.gov [128.165.3.68]) by mailhost3.lanl.gov (8.10.1/8.10.1/(cic-5, 6/12/00)) with ESMTP id e7A53LN25428 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 23:03:21 -0600 Received: from pcd.lanl.gov (ts-usr-176.lanl.gov [128.165.7.176]) by cic-mail.lanl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.3/(cic-5, 2/9/99)) with ESMTP id XAA05135 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 23:03:16 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000809224131.057004f0@cic-mail.lanl.gov> X-Sender: u076663@cic-mail.lanl.gov X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 23:03:18 -0600 To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org From: David Forslund Subject: Exec basedir problem In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N I'm running an exec task (jidl) to build the appropriate java code for my application from idl. I'm seeing a problem with the basedir being passed in and how it is interpreted on WinNT. The basedir being passed in is correct and of the form: e:\project. When an argument is created from this basedir and passed as an argument to exec the backslashes are removed resulting in an incorrect argument (verified by the -verbose flag). How can I avoid this happening, that is interpreting the backslash as an explicit quote of the next character. Thanks, David W. Forslund dwf@lanl.gov Advanced Computing Laboratory http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~dwf Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545 505-665-1907 FAX: 505-665-4939