set directories with spaces

Klaus Major kmajor at metascape.org
Fri Jun 28 03:39:01 EDT 2002


Hi Simon,

looks like you are working with 243b1.

In that case Brians suggestion should do the trick.

My test was with 242 on OSX so
set the directory to "/Volumes/Mac OS X"
was working.

there is a note in the read me about "true" UNIX paths to be used with 
that version on X.

> << I wonder if this is a OSX problem, but the following does not
> work at all:
>
> set the directory to "/Volumes/Mac OS X"
>
> I cannot set the directory to any path that has spaces in the 
> filename. >>
>
> What happens if you escape the spaces:
>
> set the directory to "/Volumnes/Mac\ OS\ X"
>
> I think that's what you need on the command line, so...
>
> HTH,
> Brian

Have a nice weekend...


Klaus Major
kmajor at metascape.org




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