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From: Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Space in 'My Documents' directory not fixed by quoting or \ escaping
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 10:30:31 +0100
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On 29/05/12 15:06, Lew wrote:
> Nigel Wade wrote:

>>
>> it's often very convenient to use tab expansion of paths (both in
>> Windows cmd
>> shell, and UNIX/Linux bash shell). This would have discovered the
>> correct path
>> for the OP. For example, enter in the cmd.exe:
>>
>> javac -d C:\Users\Owner\My
>>
>> 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.
>

But not in tab-expansion, as I said.


-- 
Nigel Wade