From: eglebbk AT dds DOT nl (Evert Glebbeek)
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Subject: Re: Help!!! how to enter a directory, which has a space?
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 22:48:50 GMT
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 From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
 On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:38:57 +0300 (IDT)

>
>On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Simon wrote:
>
>> could anyone please tell me how to get in a directory which obtains a apace?
>> such as 'a b'
>
>Surround it with quotes:
>
>       cd "a b"

I'm not sure if that will work in plain DOS (I know, win9X renames it
as ab~1, but it is possible to have file and directory names
containing spaces in plain DOS as well). A trick I used to use would
be to do 
chdir("a b");
from a program, which always worked fine.