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  1. April 4th, 2003, 12:53 AM #1
    josh1en
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    DOS question

    Hi,

    I have a silly question: in the DOS prompt, I am typing

    > cd Program Files

    to go to the Program Files folder.

    but because there is a space in the directory name, dos has a problem.

    How can I fix this?

    Thanks!
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  2. April 4th, 2003, 12:56 AM #2
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    Try

    cd "Program Files"

    or if there are no other folders starting with program you might try:

    cd Program*

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  3. April 4th, 2003, 01:00 AM #3
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    Thanks!
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  4. April 4th, 2003, 02:11 AM #4
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    cd Program*

    only works on NT/2K/XP. Doesn't work on 95/98/ME

    If Program Files is the first directory with Progra... created, you could also use

    cd Progra~1
    Succinct is verbose for terse
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  6. April 4th, 2003, 07:10 AM #5
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    You can use dir /x to obtain the 8.3 format directory name and
    then cd into that directory.

    --Paul
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  7. April 6th, 2003, 05:57 PM #6
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    cd Program* will only work with cmd command processor. The default old command will neither work on NT/2K/XP
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