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RE: long filenames under ex.exx

• Posted by Al Gonzalez <alg at nomscon.com> Feb 23, 2002
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Mike Nelson wrote:
> 
> The problem is that cd is a DOS command and DOS uses the space to 
> separate
> command line parameters, so the cd C:\Program Files is interperted by 
> DOS as
> "change directory to C:\Program, what the hell is that Files parameter 
> for?"
> 
> The Solution is to get DOS to see "C:\Program Files" as DOS does not
> interpret a space in a quoted string as a parameter separator and will
> interpret as "Change directory to C:\Program Files, no problem."
> 
> The correct Euphoria code is
> 
> system("cd \"c:\\program files\"", 2)  -- the \"  includes a literal " 
> in
> the string
> 
> By the way, it does no harm to enclose a file or folder name in quotes 
> if it
> has no spaces, so this solution will also work for variable file/folder
> names.
> 
> -- MIke Nelson
> 

Thanks Mike, but if you'll notice in my original post, I already tried 
that with the following results:

> >    system("cd \"c:\\program files\"", 2) results in
> >    Parameter format not correct -  "c:\program

I get the same result under Windows 2000 and XP

Al