[quake3] fs_homepath write protected, Windows 2000

Info AT Vampire Ducks info at vampireducks.com
Tue Oct 9 04:28:22 EDT 2007


I wonder if Cmd_TokenizeString2 is the culprit. I think that it 
tokenizes the command line options.  I think it terminates the token 
when it sees a space.

(Of course, I could be way off too... It wouldn't be the first time... :-)

-db.

Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Henry Garcia wrote:
>   
>> Was unable to get this function to work using ---> \fs_homepath
>>
>> It seems that I don't know how to get ioquake3.x86.exe to deal with spaces
>> in the Windows Operating System.
>>
>> If you start ioquake3 as follows:
>> ioquake3.x86.exe +set fs_homepath "c:\Program Files\Quake III Arena"
>> using quotation marks or not using them
>>
>> then fs_homepath returns "c:\Program"
>>
>> As soon as it finds a space it cuts out. Are there any ways to deal with
>> this situation other than not putting the home path  in a directory without
>> spaces?
>>     
>
> The whole command line parsing and startup code (com_consoleLines)
> is broken in that regard. Additional quotation might work:
> ioquake3.x86.exe +set fs_homepath "\"c:\Program Files\Quake III Arena\""
>
> cu
> Ludwig
>
>   




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