Q: hay everyone . is there a way to change a folder in DOS that a space in the name of the folder. I know it will work with the 32 bit command prompt on NT or 2k, but what if youre right in dos? cd command does allow me a space to use the name of the directory to identify. any thoughts on this would be appreciated . thanks
Best Answer: Try wrapping it in quotes.
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Re:to be quite honest we were trying it through winNT but we were curious about regular DOS. we dont have a PC that has just dos, or can just get into DOS easily so we're lost at this point with all of youre usggestion. i was merely curious to see if there was a known way of doing for future reference!
thanx again for all of your replies. i know where i can go for accurate info!
thanx for all of the replies.
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Re:When you do a dir do you see the space?
If so, does it look like "director y" or "dir ecto"? If the first, its actually a directory with an extsion, to access it type "cd director.y" The second means a trick was used to get a space in there. One method was to use a null character that looks like a space, to get past that type "cd dir"<alt-0>"ecto" note: you have to hold alt and press 0 on the numeric keypad.
If those don't work, and you do see the space using dir, I have some more tricks that I know.
You might want to give a directory listing so we can tell the directory you're trying access. type the command "dir > it.txt" and paste the contents of it.txt to here.
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Re:That's odd….I have no problems using quotes (double quotes) trying to access long name directories. Which DOS are you using?
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Re:in Dos it just removes all spaces in the directory name, so you better do dir and change to the directory like it says there …. for example I made directory "a b c" and in Dos it was like that : "abc~1"
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Re:quotes didnt work…thanks anyway
any other suggestion?
thanx for the replies..
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Re:Give a shot at using " " around the directory name.
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Re:DOS 6.22 won't let you do it.
DOS 7.x and above, use quotes….eg CD\"Program Files".
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