set directories with spaces

Klaus Major kmajor at metascape.org
Wed Jun 26 07:02:00 EDT 2002


Hi Simon,

no quotes will do the trick ;-)

...
set the directory to "/Mac OS X"
...

et voila...

MC is less restrictive than shell...

> How can we set the directory to a folder with spaces?  In the shell I 
> would do the following:
>
> cd "Mac OS X"
>
> Under MetaCard I have to do the following which I would assume should 
> work:
>
> set the directory to "/"&quote&"Mac OS X"&quote
>
> But that returns "can't open directory", am I missing a step?  Anyone 
> see an error in that script?
>
> Sincerely,
> Simon


Regards

Klaus Major
kmajor at metascape.org




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