Spaces in path name breaks M-x dirs?

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* Spaces in path name breaks M-x dirs?
@ 2003-02-18 14:51 Ixnay Amenay
  2003-02-18 20:33 ` gebser
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ixnay Amenay @ 2003-02-18 14:51 UTC (permalink / raw)


cygwin> pwd
c:/Program Files
cygwin> 

M-x dirs

"Couldn't cd"

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* Re: Spaces in path name breaks M-x dirs?
  2003-02-18 14:51 Spaces in path name breaks M-x dirs? Ixnay Amenay
@ 2003-02-18 20:33 ` gebser
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: gebser @ 2003-02-18 20:33 UTC (permalink / raw)



You've discovered one bane of many of the WOS.

I'm not familiar with cygwin, but generally you can get around spaces in 
filenames and directories by putting a backslash before the space (to 
"escape" it) or putting it or the whole file/directory name in quotes.


hth,
ken

Ixnay Amenay at 06:51 (UTC-0800) on 18 Feb 2003 said:

= cygwin> pwd
= c:/Program Files
= cygwin> 
= 
= M-x dirs
= 
= "Couldn't cd"
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