Re: set directories with spaces

2002-06-28 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Simon, looks like you are working with 243b1. In that case Brians suggestion should do the trick. My test was with 242 on OSX so set the directory to "/Volumes/Mac OS X" was working. there is a note in the read me about "true" UNIX paths to be used with that version on X. > << I wonder if

Re: set directories with spaces

2002-06-27 Thread Simon Lord
Doesn't work either. Under most Unices you would use quotes to close the filename: cd /Volumes/"Mac OS X" This works if I run it through shell(), but that's not what I'm trying to do. I want to set the directory internally to MC, driving me a little nuts at the moment. On Friday, June 28, 2

Re: set directories with spaces

2002-06-27 Thread Yennie
<< I wonder if this is a OSX problem, but the following does not work at all: set the directory to "/Volumes/Mac OS X" I cannot set the directory to any path that has spaces in the filename. >> What happens if you escape the spaces: set the directory to "/Volumnes/Mac\ OS\ X" I think that's

Re: set directories with spaces

2002-06-27 Thread Simon Lord
I wonder if this is a OSX problem, but the following does not work at all: set the directory to "/Volumes/Mac OS X" I cannot set the directory to any path that has spaces in the filename. On Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 06:54 AM, Klaus Major wrote: > set the directory to "/Mac OS X" Sincerely

Re: set directories with spaces

2002-06-26 Thread Richard MacLemale
On 6/26/02 12:03 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: > From: Simon Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > How can we set the directory to a folder with spaces? In the > shell I would do the following: > > cd "Mac OS X" >

Re: set directories with spaces

2002-06-26 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Simon, no quotes will do the trick ;-) ... set the directory to "/Mac OS X" ... et voila... MC is less restrictive than shell... > How can we set the directory to a folder with spaces? In the shell I > would do the following: > > cd "Mac OS X" > > Under MetaCard I have to do the followin