Help with creating batch files

[hypn0tik]

I am trying to create a batch file which will open up hyperterminal and connect to a device that is connected to my serial port.

The problem is I don't know how to enter spaces in a directory name.

When I try:

start /max c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Communications\HyperTerminal.exe

It gives me an error.

Any way to overcome this?

 

[Bozo Galora]

I would guess underspace

john_smith

but error may also have something to do with long file names
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000209.htm
http://www.computerhope.com/batch.htm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ho...eate+batch+files%3F&btnG=Google+Search

 

[hypn0tik]

Originally posted by: Bozo Galora
I would guess underspace

john_smith

but error may also have something to do with long file names
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000209.htm
http://www.computerhope.com/batch.htm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ho...eate+batch+files%3F&btnG=Google+Search

Nope. Underscore didn't work. Any other suggestions?

 

[nod218]

try quotation. "c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Communications\HyperTerminal.exe", and you don't need the start /max

 

[theAnimal]

Edit: Beaten.

 

[jackschmittusa]

You need to use the truncated, DOS 8.3 name for the documents and settings directory. Doing something else now too, so I can't check to see just what it is, buy it has a ~ in it.

 

[hypn0tik]

 

[troytime]

isn't it ~# (# being the number of truncated characters)?

 

[Ryland]

Actually the number is dictated by where it falls in a list of truncated items in that location:

"c:\Docume~1\All~1\Start~1\Progra~1\Access~1\Commun~1\HyperTer~1.exe"