X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,PLING_QUERY,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com connect(): No such file or directory From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: Hello! I can't get to c:\Program Files using c:\Program/ Files\ any suggestions? Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:19:14 -0500 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <4C17B0BA.10607@caltech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081209 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.6.0 In-Reply-To: <4C17B0BA.10607@caltech.edu> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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). --=20 Ren=E9 Berber -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple