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Using DOS in XP
Name: Mike178 Date: March 15, 2004 at 11:07:19 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home Edition 5 CPU/Ram: Pentium 4, 1.7 GHz 51
Comment:
I am trying to understand some things with DOS in windows xp.
I know you can change to long name directories by using:
cd abcdef~1
But how can I change to directories such as:
"My Folders"
I have tried all combinations of underscores and ~
Name: doschap Date: March 15, 2004 at 11:18:43 Pacific
Reply:
Mike Use the full path. eg. If your prompt is c:\ cd\documents and settings\mike\my documents would work if the path is correct.
Bob
Murphy was an optimist.
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Response Number 2
Name: sarahhh Date: March 15, 2004 at 11:26:04 Pacific
Reply:
Another possibility is omitting the spaces, so instead of this:
cd "My Folders"
use this:
cd MYFOLD~1
Noticed this on XP and Win95. Hope this helps.
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Response Number 3
Name: Mike178 Date: March 15, 2004 at 12:50:40 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks sarahhh!
That was EXACTLY the string I was in search of!
Thanks again
Mike
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Response Number 4
Name: RWe Date: March 15, 2004 at 15:53:16 Pacific
Reply:
on a side note, if there are spaces in your directory/file name, you can enclose them in quotes.
eg: cd "c:\documents and settings\all users"
or if you're lazy, you could add a wildcard after a partial name.
eg: cd window*
However this only works if the filespec is unique. If you had similar names like (c:\windows) and (c:\window scripts) you'll need to be more specific. Well, this works on NT, but should also apply with the "dos mode" in XP.
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