newbish problem

[theholygod]

Hi guys,
this problem is probably very simple and im gonna get laughed off the forum on my first post!

anyhow, im playing around with a BAT file im writing from scratch which will open when i turn on my computer. This BAT file, in turn is going to open all the programs i usually open manually (email, etc).

my problem, however, is that when i try to open a directory with a space in the name (eg. "program files") dos complains that the directory ("C:\program") does not exist.

how do i go about making a space without breaking directory name?

[Dilbert]

I've never heard of DOS complaining about directory names having spaces. However, the syntax for editing a file with spaces is

EDIT "Sample program".txt

So I'm thinking if you wanted to change to a directory with spaces you could go

cd "Program files"

Does that work?

[Rob Pomeroy]

Getting deja vu here - someone asked about this recently.  Doesn't it make a difference which command interpreter parses the batch file?  i.e. cmd.exe versus command.com?

[Dusty]

Cmd.exe accepts blanks in filenames, Command.com does not. (I think)

Try them both to find out.

Good luck...

[theholygod]

what is command.com? ive never heard of it before

[Dusty]

See here.....