newbie question re: MS filenames

Ken Moffat kmoffat
Mon May 17 11:47:07 PDT 2004


Tony Alfrey wrote:

>This is a really dumb question that I'm embarrased to even ask.
>I'm trying to run wine on .exe files on an Adobe Illustrator CD 
>(Microsoft).
>The microsoft file names have blank spaces in the filenames and 
>directory names.  So I can't open the file or directory from the 
>command line when I reproduce the file name with the space bar as a 
>space.  But the files or directory opens from Konqueror with a mouse 
>click.  So what character is really hiding in the "space"??
>
>  
>
Put the filename with a space in quotes
"filename with space.exe"



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