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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 08:45:43 -0700 (MST)
From: David May <dmay AT tvi DOT cc DOT nm DOT us>
To: kagel AT dg1 DOT bloomberg DOT com
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: changing directories in Bash
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.961202084331.27688A-100000@curie.tvi.cc.nm.us>
MIME-Version: 1.0

>    I lost the original message asking help about changing directory into 
>    the c:\Program Files directory under Windows 95 under bash.  The 
>    only way I could get it to work is to use
>    cd /Progra~1.
>    Then pwd returns
>    /Progra~1
>    as the current working directory.
> 
>    Any ideas?
>    David May
>    Albuquerque TVI

Sorry I didn't make this clear, but I wrote this AFTER I tried all 
your suggestions.

> OK once again, quick and dirty:
> 
> Try:
> 	cd 'Program Files'
> OR
> 	cd "Program Files"
> OR
> 	cd Progam\ Files
> 

Thanks anyway.  I will try to look into the source in the next week 
and see if I can't figure out what's going on.

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