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Subject:	Re: Hello! I can't get to c:\Program Files using c:\Program/ Files\ any suggestions?
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Matthew Thornton wrote:

> I just recently upgraded to the newer version of cygwin and I am not
> unable to change directory into Program Files or My Documents using the
> forward slash.  This was working before the upgrade and I was wondering
> what I should check to see how it was disabled.  I have also tried using
> single quotation marks 'c:\Program Files' and this does not work
> either.  I really don't want to mount all of the programs that I want to
> use that are installed in Program Files, and I can anyway because there
> are only 30 mount points possible and I have more than 30 programs in
> file folders with spaces in them in Program Files. Is there any way
> around this problem?  Thanks!

Operator error?

What exactly did you try to do? for instance here's what you see on my
terminal:

$ cd /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/
$ pwd
/cygdrive/c/Program Files

You can also use quotes:

$ cd "/cygdrive/c/Program Files"/

The last slash is not necessary (it was added by auto-completion).
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Ren=E9 Berber


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