| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Jorge Godoy <jgodoy(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Casey Crosbie <casey(dot)crosbie(at)noaa(dot)gov>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Can't change working directory to C:/Documents and Settings in Windows |
| Date: | 2007-07-02 07:28:54 |
| Message-ID: | 20070702072854.GA32488@svr2.hagander.net |
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On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:46:22PM -0300, Jorge Godoy wrote:
> On Sunday 01 July 2007 22:25:24 Casey Crosbie wrote:
> > Jorge,
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion. But unfortunately, I tried both
> > \cd "C:/Document~1" and just \cd C:/"Document~1" and neither worked.
>
> Sorry. It should be up to 8 chars: "Docume~1" or some variation like that
> (I've seen ~2 due to some unknown reason). This looks like a Windows
> problem on finding directories with spaces in its name. The same happens
> with diacriticals...
To help others in the future, the way to find out what the directory short
name actually is, use "dir /x c:\".
Not that it was the problem this time, but I'm sure someone will need it at
some point.
//Magnus
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