newbie question re: MS filenames
Tony Alfrey
tonyalfrey
Mon May 17 11:47:07 PDT 2004
On Monday 05 May 2003 05:48 pm, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 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"
>
Thanks!
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Tony Alfrey
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