[Zope] Zope 2.7.2 still doesn't run as a service in w2k

[Passin, Tom]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Peters [mailto:tim.peters at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 2:18 PM
> To: Passin, Tom
> Cc: zope at zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope 2.7.2 still doesn't run as a service in w2k
> 
> [Passin, Tom]
> > In almost all cases I have had, surrounding the file name with
double
> > quotes takes care of any problems.  For the same reason, it is good
> > practice to write "%1" (with quotes) for the argument placeholder of
> > command lines.
> >
> > I recommend trying this first, before resorting to the 8.3 syntax.
> 
> It probably won't help.  Things executed from the shell do quote
> processing, because the *shell* does quote processing.  Things passed
> directly to a Win32 API call often don't get that (mixed) benefit.
> The basic Win32 API CreateProcess() call splits arguments on
> whitespace, even when the whitespace is inside double quotes (well,
> except for the first part of the command line passed to it -- it does
> special-case quotes to get at the executable path, but quotes don't
> mean anything on the rest of the command line passed to it).  Running
> as a service eventually has to call CreateProcess() under the covers.

Hmm, my version of Zope (the one that installed with Plone2) runs fine
as a service using paths with spaces.  Doesn't CreateProcess() want the
command line parameters to go in a separate arg from the executable?
It's been a long time and I might not be remembering right, but I seem
to recall vaguely from long-ago Delphi and Powerbuilder days that I had
to use a separate arg for the parameters, and then they got handled
right, spaces or no.  

Well, maybe it's been too long. Anyway, Plone2 works on my Win2000
system with long file names.

Cheers,

Tom P