moving folders

[Ari Torhamo]

ke, 2005-02-09 kello 13:02 -0500, John DeCarlo kirjoitti:
> On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:16:17 +0200, Ari Torhamo
> <ari.torhamo at saunalahti.fi> wrote:
> > I hope this thing is going to get fixed sometime in the future. Things
> > not working properly when leaving a space between the words in a name of
> > a directory sounds like a place for improvement. Would fixing this be
> > difficult, much work or cause other problems?
> 
> Not sure what you are asking for.
> 
> Using the command line interface (CLI) in either Windows or Linux, a
> space is interpreted as the beginning of a new parameter.
> 
> Try
> 
> dir \Program Files\Adobe
> 
> in Windows.
> 
> In both Windows and Linux, putting double quotes around the filename
> that has spaces in it will work.  In Linux, you can also escape the
> difficult characters, which is what file name completion will do (the
> backslash, \, tells Linux to treat the next character as a character,
> not a special-meaning signal).
> 
> So, I guess you could "fix" this in both Windows and Linux somehow,
> but how would you get both sides to agree on an answer?
> 
> -- 
> John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
> 

Hi,

I forgot to mention that I never used command line in Windows - I didn't
have to. Because of this I was suprised to meet this limitation with
naming files and folders. I really didn't know that the same problem
exists in Windows too - my misunderstanding. And now I know that you can
have spaces in file names, you just have to use quotes then. Good to
know those other "tricks" too.

Thanks for the awnser John :-)

Ari Torhamo