Amigaguide woes

[rare_j]

I'm generating an amigaguide document with a button that contains a system command.The problem is the system command may be operating on a file that contains a space. The button looks like this:

@{"Open this file" system "more ram:bad file name.txt"}

That doesn’t work because of the spaces in the filename.

I want to wrap extra quotes around the path but I cant work out what the escape character is for quotes in this situation.

Any ideas?

Thanks

PS. This greater goal is to automatically generate an amigaguide document with buttons that run all the whdload games found on the system

[ppill]

Try this (asterisk):

@{"Open this file" system "more *"ram:bad file name.txt*""}

[rare_j]

Doesn't work, unfortunately, but I found a workaround - make sure I don't have any spaces in my filenames!

[r6stu]

On other os's you use a single quote for the file name eg "'Bad File Name'"

[smoorke]

\
A backslash is the escape character. A backslash in front of the @ sign is used to escape it. The backslash has no effect as an escape character inside commands such as @ONOPEN or @{".." LINK ..}; in cases like these it is treated as a regular character.
Please note that Amigaguide V35 does not treat the backslash character as an escape character.

Found this in the 3.9NDK