One factor that is slightly unusual about this phenomenon is that it only occurs with GHC, but not with Hugs 98. Typing
:cd "D:\From C Drive\Documents and Settings\DekuDekuplex\Programming Practice\Haskell\GHC" in Hugs 98 does not cause an error, but typing the same command in GHC does. It seems that Hugs 98 allows spaces in filenames/paths, but GHC doesn't. Is there any way to configure GHC so that it accepts the same type of filenames/paths as Hugs 98? Benjamin L. Russell --- "Benjamin L. Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please pardon this intrusion for an elementary > question on setting the GHC search path. > > I have installed GHC on my work Windows XP machine, > and would like to be able to search for files in the > following directory: > > D:\From C Drive\Documents and > Settings\DekuDekuplex\Programming > Practice\Haskell\GHC > > However, when I type the following command into the > GHC interpreter: > > :cd "D:\From C Drive\Documents and > Settings\DekuDekuplex\Programming > Practice\Haskell\GHC" > > I get the following error message: > > *** Exception: "D:\From C Drive\Documents and > Settings\DekuDekuplex\Programming > Practice\Haskell\GHC": setCurrentDirectory: invalid > argument (Invalid argument) > > Yet, for testing purposes, when I type the following > command: > > :cd cygwin > > I do not get any error message. > > There seems to be a problem with the spaces in the > filename. However, I would like to be able to use > the > "D:\From C Drive\Documents and > Settings\DekuDekuplex\Programming > Practice\Haskell\GHC" directory for GHC programming > practice, because I keep my practice work for my > other > programming languages in the same > super-super-directory. > > Does anybody know a way to specify "D:\From C > Drive\Documents and > Settings\DekuDekuplex\Programming > Practice\Haskell\GHC" as a directory in the search > path for GHC? > > Benjamin L. Russell > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe