Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Frank Schmitt Subject: Re: quoting windows pathnames Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 08:59:53 +0200 Organization: Hamme net, kren mer och nimmi Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <000501c323bc$e0dbf080$aa6bd6d1@dell03> <0df801c323d1$962574c0$c800a8c0@docbill> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AXKPqCNQzua1ufY2ooQrWOpWbHM= X-Posting-Agent: Hamster/2.0.0.1 "Bill C Riemers" writes: >> Silly question but why do you _have_ to use paths with spaces in them >> under Windows XP? It's possible to change e.g. the default programs >> directory from e.g. C:\Program Files\ to C:\Programs\, the same stands >> for the other standard directories. > > OK. You have me curious. Please tell. Especially how to change the > name of the "Documents and Settings" directory. Even better if you > can tell me how to put that on another drive than C: without > reinstalling. (I hate having to use partition magic regularly...) Sure, I'll look it up when I come home tonight. -- WANTED: A nice signature REWARD: none -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/