You're right; it works without the double-quotes.

Problem solved.  Thanks!

Benjamin L. Russell

--- Olivier Boudry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In GHC it works without the " and don't work with
> them:
> 
> Prelude> :cd C:\Documents and Settings
> Prelude> :! pwd
> C:\Documents and Settings
> 
> Olivier.
> 
> On 10/29/07, 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
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