Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 08:38:53 +0200
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Subject: Re: Help!!! how to enter a directory, which has a space?
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> From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 01:00:03 GMT
>
> >>       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).
> 
> Don't most scandisk versions report spaces in filenames as invalid
> characters?

On Windows or on DOS?

On Windows, "a b" is a valid file name, so scandisk does nothing with
it.  On DOS, "a b" cannot happen, since DOS thinks that the first
blank in the name is the end of the name part.