[DrJava] [ drjava-Bugs-2884746 ] Character '!' in path causes failure to start on WinXP

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Bugs item #2884746, was opened at 2009-10-23 16:54
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Category: Other
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: K. Henriksen (infophreak)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Character '!' in path causes failure to start on WinXP

Initial Comment:
Tested on Windows XP (executable and jar file) and Sun Java 6u16 and Ubuntu (jar file) Sun Java 6u16.

On Ubuntu everything works as expected. java -jar /tmp/\!test/drjava-stable-20090821-r5004.jar starts DrJava.

On Windows XP things are different. File location: G:\Code\Java!\drjava-stable-20090821-r5004.(jar|exe).
Expected behaviour: DrJava starts normally when double-clicking the executable or the jar file.
Actual behaviour: DrJava brings up an error dialog and clicking "More Information" gives the attached error message.
Workaround: Don't have exclamation marks in the path to DrJava on Windows XP.

Speculation: I believe this bug has been around for a *long* time. I vaguely remember running into it years ago, but not thinking much of it since I moved the jar file to Program Files\DrJava which caused the problem to run away. I also do not know if other characters trigger the bug as well.

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