Re: can't find default configuration file

[Clay Leeds <cl...@medata.com>]

> Andreas wrote:
> Hi Maestro,
>
> Upon checking fop.sh and fop.bat, I don't think there's much you can do
> there... if you decide to add a possible FAQ about it, make sure it 
> tells
> people to use quoted arguments in case of characters like these in the
> paths. Works on OS X and Win2K. The shell scripts interpret these as 
> one
> argument, and pass them as such to FOP.

Thanks for the heads up, Andreas. I'll keep that in mind. Does this 
mean one should do something like this for Unix:

./fop.sh -d -c "/my weird/conf path!/userconfig.xml" -fo input.fo -pdf 
t.pdf

or or this for Windows:

./fop.bat -d -c "c:\my weird\conf path!\userconfig.xml" -fo input.fo 
-pdf t.pdf

Thanks!

BTW, Anyone else seeing sporadic mail issues? I didn't actually 
*receive* Andreas' message. (I noticed in MARC, and am responding 
before I go home).

Web Maestro Clay

Re: can't find default configuration file

[Chris Bowditch <bo...@hotmail.com>]

Clay Leeds wrote:

> BTW, Anyone else seeing sporadic mail issues? I didn't actually 
> *receive* Andreas' message. (I noticed in MARC, and am responding before 
> I go home).

Hi Clay - I noticed that the mailing lists were very slow yesterday, with 
responses appearing in MARC well before I received them. Seems to be back to 
normal today though.

Chris

Re: can't find default configuration file

["Peter B. West" <pb...@tpg.com.au>]

Andreas L. Delmelle wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Peter B. West [mailto:pbwest@tpg.com.au]
>>
> 
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> 
>>Arguments enclosed in quotes, either double or single, are passed as a
>>single argument to the shell script.  I'm not sure about Win CMD
>>systems, but I believe that they do the same thing.
>>
> 
> 
> Bam! This was the description I was looking for :)
> My initial wording was a bit off, just couldn't get it expressed right
> (could 've known that it would be more the OS than the shell script that
> does the actual interpreting)

Andreas,

It is in fact the shell, because your CLI system interface is also the 
shell.  It interprets the arguments, then forks another shell which 
execs the binary command or interprets the shell script.  As far as I 
know, CMD works the same way.

Peter
-- 
Peter B. West <http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/resume.html>

RE: can't find default configuration file

["Andreas L. Delmelle" <a_...@pandora.be>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter B. West [mailto:pbwest@tpg.com.au]
>

Hi Peter,

> Arguments enclosed in quotes, either double or single, are passed as a
> single argument to the shell script.  I'm not sure about Win CMD
> systems, but I believe that they do the same thing.
>

Bam! This was the description I was looking for :)
My initial wording was a bit off, just couldn't get it expressed right
(could 've known that it would be more the OS than the shell script that
does the actual interpreting)


Cheers,

Andreas

Re: can't find default configuration file

["Peter B. West" <pb...@tpg.com.au>]

Andreas L. Delmelle wrote:
> 
> That was exactly what I meant, indeed. Not sure whether it's about the shell
> script interpreting the argument as one string, but anyway, it gets passed
> to the Java VM as one argument, and Java itself has no problems dealing with
> long file names...
> 

Arguments enclosed in quotes, either double or single, are passed as a 
single argument to the shell script.  I'm not sure about Win CMD 
systems, but I believe that they do the same thing.

Peter
-- 
Peter B. West <http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/resume.html>

RE: can't find default configuration file

["Andreas L. Delmelle" <a_...@pandora.be>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clay Leeds [mailto:cleeds@medata.com]
>

Hi Clay,

> Thanks for the heads up, Andreas. I'll keep that in mind. Does this
> mean one should do something like this for Unix:
>

That was exactly what I meant, indeed. Not sure whether it's about the shell
script interpreting the argument as one string, but anyway, it gets passed
to the Java VM as one argument, and Java itself has no problems dealing with
long file names...

>
> BTW, Anyone else seeing sporadic mail issues? I didn't actually
> *receive* Andreas' message. (I noticed in MARC, and am responding
> before I go home).
>

As Chris mentioned, mail was indeed quite slow yesterday. Normally, I
receive postings practically instantly, give or take a few minutes, after I
send them... Yesterday, it took about 1.5 hours. Then again, it seemed to be
a general problem. Lots of delayed mails at work too.


Greetz,

Andreas