config.user: format of paths on Windows system

[Charles Day]

On Feb 19, 2008 11:37 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Here's something to try..  What happens if you move (or copy)
> the ibr-gnc-module.scm to C: and then you can try one of:
>
>  (load "/ibr-gnc-module.scm")
>  (load "/c/ibr-gnc-module.scm")
>  (load "c:/ibr-gnc-module.scm")
>  (load "c:\ibr-gnc-module.scm")
>

I believe that last one would have to be (load "c:\\ibr-gnc-module.scm")
otherwise Scheme will swallow the single \ character. What the heck, try all
five.


> And see what works.  Then we can at least see if this works
> at all for you...  And then we can go through the complications
> of trying to get it working otherwise.
>
> Also, you might want to use the debug output to see your output.
> For example, do you see your printf output in the gnucash.trace
> file?
>
> -derek
>
> Jannick Asmus <jannick.news at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Nathan, Robert,
> >
> > thanks for your input.
> >
> > I tried every version of path format. No effect.
> >
> > So I might be that the code of the config.user is not correct. Could
> > someone check it, please? I am a real newbie to this stuff.
> >
> > Thanx again.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > J.
> >
> > On 17.02.2008 23:39, Nathan Buchanan wrote:
> >> I doubt windows likes the double slash...try c:\path.... instead.
> >>
> >> On Feb 17, 2008 4:18 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com
> >> <mailto:heller at deepsoft.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     At Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:14:22 +0100 Jannick Asmus
> >>     <jannick.news at gmail.com <mailto:jannick.news at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>      >
> >>      > Hi All,
> >>      >
> >>      > I am encountering problems running the following
> config.user-file on
> >>      > WinXP together with GC v2.2.3. The problem is that additional
> >>     tools do
> >>      > not show up as they are supposed to be.
> >>      >
> >>      > Here is the config-file saved in .gnucash:
> >>      > _____________________
> >>      > (printf "Start config.user\n")
> >>      >
> >>      > (define ibr-menu-created #f)
> >>      >
> >>      > (let (
> >>      >               (path ("C://Dokumente und
> >>      > Einstellungen/user/.gnucash/ibr-gnc-module.scm"))
> >>      >       )
> >>      >       (printf "config.user: loading %s ...\n" path)
> >>      >       (load path)
> >>      > )
> >>      >
> >>      > (printf "End config.user\n")
> >>      > _______________________
> >>      >
> >>      > The file stems from
> >>     http://www.ibrieger.de/misc/linux/gnucash/index.html
> >>      > where the .scm-file is available for download as well.
> >>      >
> >>      > At start-up GC looks for the config.user file in .gnucash and
> >>     starts it.
> >>      > Derek and me, we have already found out that the line defining
> >>     the hard
> >>      > coded path variable
> >>      >
> >>      >       (path ("C://Dokumente und
> >>     Einstellungen/user/.gnucash/ibr-gnc-module.scm"))
> >>      >
> >>      > does not seem to be correct.
> >>      >
> >>      > Does anyone has a clue what format the path should have on a
> Windows
> >>      > system? Should "\" be used? What is the syntax for calling the
> >>     hard drive?
> >>
> >>     I believe that the C Library's fopen() under MS-Windows handles '/'
> as
> >>     a directory separator (internally replaces '/' with '\' before
> calling
> >>     the lower level O/S I/O functions.  Don't know how drive letters
> are
> >>     handled. And I don't know what the MS-Windows port of GnuScheme
> does
> >>     with pathnames.
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