Links to external files have additional executable prepended in the link part (since v2.19)

[guest]

Links to external INF files don't work in v2.19 anymore. They have an additional 'view.exe' prepended. Therefore the started INF file viewer tries to open VIEW.EXE as an INF file and the original link part as search string.

Example: (link to cmdref.inf)

:link reftype=launch object='view.exe' data='cmdref'.cmdref:elink.

Result:

The status bar shows it already: view.exe view.exe cmdref

The same applies to links to HLP files. External links using other executables were not tested.

2.19 beta 4 works, 2.19 shows the bug. I hope it will be fixed soon, before the final eCS 2.0 rc. Thanks.

Andreas Schnellbacher

[guest]

The issue occurs also for Netscape (WEB browser) links etc.

I haven't recognized that before, because I use v2.19b4.

Andreas Schnellbacher

[RBRi]

Ok, have done a first check

There are some errors here. Will try to fix it this week.

[RBRi]

Ok, i know it was a bit longer then one week....

A branch is opend to fix the remaining issues. I have build some testcases so hopefully the bug is gone now. After some more test a fix will be available.

[RBRi]

A bugfix version 2.19.1 rc1 is available at www.rbri.org. Please try it....

and sorry for the delay

rbri