On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Richard Sharpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > However, I keep running into problems with 8,3 directory names. > > > > For example, cd ethereal-0.9.4 tells me that it is an Invalid directory. > > That's odd. I've done "cd"s, from the standard command prompt, to non-8.3 > directories on both NT 4.0 and NT 5.0^H^H^H^H^H^HWindows 2000. > > I could imagine Windows OT (95, 98, Me) having problems with that (although I > could also imagine the Windows OT command interpreter *not* having problems > with that), but I'd be really surprised if Windows NT (NT 3.x, NT 4.0, W2K, > WXP, W.NETServer) having problems with that.
Yes, I was surprised too, since Win9X allows you to put quotes around and it works. > Perhaps there's some other problem with that directory? I fixed the problem for now using mangled names :-( My next problem is that nmake says that win32.mak can't be found :-( Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
