[Os-project-managers] Ticket 50

[Horand Gassmann]

Hi guys,

some very preliminary thoughts about ticket 50. Mike Steglich wants to  
be able to use files and folders that have embedded spaces. He  
proposes to use the form
-osol "folder with spaces/filename"
for this purpose and started to code some patches to OSSolverService  
that would allow him to strip the quotes at the right time. (Other  
file types would be handled analagously.)

My take on this is that if we allow it, we must allow it everywhere,  
that is, in the config file, the osol file, the interactive shell, the  
OSSolverService command line, and the OSAmplClient. I do not like  
Mike's patches, and he admits himself that they do not always work. My  
preferred approach would be to add further patterns to the command  
line parser OSParseosss.l, (and to let OSAmplClient use the same  
command line parser!!!)

Cheers

gus

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