Okay Bruce, I'll give that a whirl!
Thanks!
Vern
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Vern;
>
> Even if you in DOS under windows, you can not say do "cd /program
> files/". Does under windoze uses the tilde "~". Under DOS in windows to
> change to directory "Program Files" you would type "cd /progra~1/" without
> the quotes or if you had another directory named "Programs", it would be "cd
> /progra~2", etc. Windoze dos keeps the first 6 characters of the directory
> name and assigns the tilde "~" plus a numeric from 1 to 9. I do not know
> what it would do if you had more than 9 directories named "program". Hope
> this helps.
>
> Bruce :-)
>
> Oliver Stieber wrote:
>
> > if your setting up paths in wine.conf just type them in as you would under
> > dos
> > eg
> >
> > [wine]
> > path=c:\windows\system32;c:\windows;c:\dos;c:\program
> > files\myprogram
> > windows=c:\windows
> >
> > i'm not sure how you setup drives, as i'm on NT at the moment and can't
> > remember how i set the up @home
> > there's a man file for wine configuration in
> >
> > wine.configure
> >
> > and a few more in the wine doc's path
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: vern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: 31 March 2000 18:50
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: [newbie] DOS based directories
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello All,
> > > I'm presently experimenting with Wine (windows emulator)
> > > not the drink! I have a question as to how Linux recognizes
> > > two word directory names? ie: /Program Files/ How do you
> > > represent the space between words? I have tried the following:
> > > "Program Files"
> > > "Program_Files"
> > > "Program%20Files"
> > > The last one came from watching how X represents them.
> > > I have tried all the above from the command line and nogo.
> > > This may be an easily found answer but I keep overlooking it!
> > > Thanks!
> > > Vern
> > >
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