[Verba] Re: another question:

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Rebecca Chenette wrote:

> I have made a folder under the desktop. I'm simply practicing putting path
> names into the command prompt and making it work(this is a good thing,
> right?) 

yep

> anywyay, having made a folder,( I put bin2 in there to practice) I
> tried the path name. Just from looking at it, can you see where I messed up
> that it won't give me the file? 

> CD \Documents and Settings\Owner\desktop\snake foler\bin2

When the path contains spaces, you must use quotes. E.g.

CD "\Documents and Settings\Owner\desktop\snake foler\bin2"

I recommend avoiding spaces in file and directory names.

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