Yes, this trick does help undeed :-)
On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 19:05:18 +0200, Michal H. Tyc wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 19:09:17 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote:
>> Arachne could not handle a name like that. So, I tried to rename the
>> file with Norton Commander. But :-(((
>> It looks like this is not an Arachne problem but a DOS problem. A space
>> seems to be a non valid character in DOS file-names.
> Space is a valid character for DOS filenames at the level of
> DOS function calls (i.e., the strings passed to INT 21h can
> contain spaces). The problem is at the command line interface,
> where spaces work as command parameter separators, e.g.,
> REN MY FILE.DOC MY_FILE.DOC
> will be interpreted as "rename MY to FILE.DOC" plus some extra
> input (unneeded third parameter MY_FILE.DOC). The remedy is to
> use double quotes:
> REN "MY FILE.DOC" MY_FILE.DOC
> But quotes not always work -- it depends on DOS version an on
> the command. External programs may support quotes or not. So it's
> best to avoid spaces.
> BTW, there is similar problem with the forward slash ("/"). DOS
> functions accept both "\" (DOS-like) and "/" (Unix-like) path
> separators. But on the command line "/" is interpreted as a
> command switch character by all DOS commands and many external
> programs (these ported from Unix often prefer "-", many accept
> both "/" and "-").
> Hope this helps,
> Michal
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