spaces in a directory name in DOS??

[loosbrew]

hay everyone...is there a way to change to a directory in DOS that has a space in the name of the directory. i know it will work with the 32 bit command prompt in NT or 2k but how about if youre in straight dos? cd\ command doesnt allow me to use a space to identify the name of the dir. any thoughts on this would be appreciated.... thanks


loos

 

[AndyHui]

DOS 6.22 won't let you do it.

DOS 7.x and above, use quotes....eg CD\"Program Files".

 

[Ladi]

Give a shot at using " " around the directory name.

~Ladi

 

[loosbrew]

quotes didnt work...thanks anyway

any other suggestion?
thanx for the replies..

loosbrew

 

[anton]

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"

 

[AndyHui]

That's odd....I have no problems using quotes (double quotes) trying to access long name directories. Which DOS are you using?

 

[Tom61]

When you do a dir do you see the space?

If so, does it look like &quot;director y&quot; or &quot;dir ecto&quot;? If the first, its actually a directory with an extsion, to access it type &quot;cd director.y&quot; 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 &quot;cd dir&quot;<alt-0>&quot;ecto&quot; 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 &quot;dir > it.txt&quot; and paste the contents of it.txt to here.

 

[loosbrew]

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.
loosbrew