Get_iplayer error when launching

[Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip]

On 2023-06-11 10:28, sousous at sousous.org wrote:

> but now, when trying to launch Get_Iplayer Update cmd or Get_Iplayer
> cm (always through the icons on my desk),
> 
> i got this message inside the cmd popup : "La ligne d'entrée est trop
> longue - la syntaxe de la commande n'est pas correcte"
> which can be translated by " the input line is too long. the syntax of
> the command is incorrect"

Has anything else on your PC stopped working?


We don't know what the commands are, associated with the icons in your
desktop.

If you right-click an icon, then choose "Properties" (at least that's
what it says in English), then look at the second tab ("Shortcut" in
English) then in the field labelled "Target" you will find the command
that is issued.

Put the mouse pointer in that field, press Ctrl-A to select it all,
then Ctrl-C to copy it and paste it into a reply here.  Do that for
both of your desktop icons.  Perhaps we can see a problem.


Windows make some attempt to update shortucts automatically if the
files they point at get moved, so maybe an automatic update has
happened and is now not right.

Another possibiity is that the commands - as copied out of the icons
- have symbols in them, marked by being between "%" signs.  For
example you might see  %ProgramFiles%.   The command that Windows
tries to run will contain the values of those symbols.  Maybe some
symbolic value has grown much longer.


If the whole command is too long, or eg has double quotes in it
but not an even number of them, then that could cause an error.


Something else you might try is pasteing each command into a
terminal window (find the "run" option in the start menu, then
specify "cmd.exe") and find out whether it will work there.


I'm not sure if the terminal window in Win 10 lets you paste
stuff into it with a Ctrl-V; earlier versions of cmd.exe need
you to right-click the mouse to have text pasted in ... and to
copy text out you drag the mouse to highlight text then press
Enter.



> By the way, sorry for my bad english.

It is fine.



-- 
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own