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Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:10:39 -0800
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: bas AT mail DOT teclink DOT net
Subject: Re: Changing directories with Bash?

At 09:06 PM 11/25/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Suppose I want to change dirs to \Program Files.  Unix (afaik) doesn't
>allow spaces.  Is there any way around this?  I tried:
>1. putting the " the microsoft has you put
>2. "dir" and 'd' print out backslashes after every word in a long filename
>(w/ spaces).  On a guess, I tried changing dirs with one of the seperated
>(by a backslash) words.  THis works about 50% of the time.
>
>Hmmm.  Anybody know?
>
>Thanks,
>Patrick
>
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I havn't tried bash yet but in dos to get to program  files or any other
directory with a space I do a cd \progra~1 or somthing like that. I'm not so
sure if that'll work w/ bash though.

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