newbie question re: MS filenames

[Kurt Wall]

An unnamed Administration source, 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"??

I don't know what Konqueror does but you can surround the file name 
with quotes (thus, "name with spaces") or escape each space with
a back slash (thus, name\ with\ spaces).

Kurt
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