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Subject: Re: Help!!! how to enter a directory, which has a space?
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Newsgroup: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
 From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
 On Fri, 01 Sep 2000 01:00:03 GMT

>On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 22:48:50 GMT, eglebbk AT dds DOT nl (Evert Glebbeek)
>wrote:
>
>>Newsgroup: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
>> On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:38:57 +0300 (IDT)
>>
>>>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).
>
>Don't most scandisk versions report spaces in filenames as invalid
>characters?

The version that came with MS-DOS 6.22 never complained.
The directory with a space in the name was part of the copy protection
of some program I installed. I thought it a charming construction at
the time because (under DOS 6) you can't cd to it, and when I tried to
open the directory by clicking on it in the DOS-Shell or the Windows
File manager, they actually claimed the directory didn't exist because
of the spaces in the name.