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Subject:	Re: Help!!! how to enter a directory, which has a space?
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Newsgroup: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
 From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
 On Fri, 01 Sep 2000 08:38:53 +0200

>> From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
>> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
>> Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 01:00:03 GMT
>>
>> >>       cd "a b"
>> >
>> >I'm not sure if that will work in plain DOS (I know, win9X renames it
>> >as ab~1, but it is possible to have file and directory names
>> >containing spaces in plain DOS as well).
>> 
>> Don't most scandisk versions report spaces in filenames as invalid
>> characters?
>
>On Windows or on DOS?
>
>On Windows, "a b" is a valid file name, so scandisk does nothing with
>it.  On DOS, "a b" cannot happen, since DOS thinks that the first
>blank in the name is the end of the name part.

It *can* happen. I own a program that creates a dircetory with a name
like "a b" as part of it's copy protection. I was also able to create
such directories and files from within GW-BASIC(!).
I think that if you actually pass a string containing a space to Int
21h/function 39h, you will end up with a directory with a space in the
name.

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