Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/25/22:17:16
At 09:06 PM 11/25/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Suppose I want to change dirs to \Program Files. Unix (afaik) doesn't
>allow spaces. Is there any way around this? I tried:
>1. putting the " the microsoft has you put
>2. "dir" and 'd' print out backslashes after every word in a long filename
>(w/ spaces). On a guess, I tried changing dirs with one of the seperated
>(by a backslash) words. THis works about 50% of the time.
>
>Hmmm. Anybody know?
>
>Thanks,
>Patrick
>
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I havn't tried bash yet but in dos to get to program files or any other
directory with a space I do a cd \progra~1 or somthing like that. I'm not so
sure if that'll work w/ bash though.
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