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Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping

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From Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
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Subject Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping
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Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> Lew wrote:
>> Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>>> then hit tab. Windows will do the rest, even adding appropriate quotes where
>>> necessary. Note that you must use the Windows \ path separator for this to work.
>>
>>"/" is a Windows path *element* separator. ";" is the path separator in Windows.
>>
>>Windows is fine with forward slashes in paths. I suspect the "%1" expansion.
> 
>      But since using "/" as a path element seprator in a command line
> will cause trouble, people tend to avoid using them as such.

That is interesting to me. What trouble?

I have used forward slashes as path element separators in Windows 
command-line commands. I don't recall that it caused any trouble.

I'm always learning from this forum.

-- 
Lew

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Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping bilsch <bilsch01@gmail.com> - 2012-05-29 05:16 -0700
  Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2012-05-29 14:32 +0200
    Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2012-05-29 13:58 +0100
      Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-05-29 07:06 -0700
        Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-29 09:27 -0700
          Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-05-29 14:07 -0700
            Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-05-29 21:43 +0000
              Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-05-29 16:37 -0600
            Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-29 14:55 -0700
              Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping bilsch <bilsch01@gmail.com> - 2012-05-29 16:06 -0700
                Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-06-02 09:31 -0700
                Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-06-03 19:23 -0700
        Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping bilsch <bilsch01@gmail.com> - 2012-05-29 12:55 -0700
        Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2012-05-30 10:30 +0100
      Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping bilsch <bilsch01@gmail.com> - 2012-05-29 12:54 -0700
    Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping bilsch <bilsch01@gmail.com> - 2012-05-29 12:50 -0700
  Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-29 07:31 -0700
    Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping bilsch <bilsch01@gmail.com> - 2012-05-29 12:59 -0700

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