That's incorrect. Type cd "\program files\" at the prompt in the regular cmd.exe, and it works. Or just type cd \progra~1 and it works, which is what I stated above.
-wraith808
If it could handle the spaces you would not need the quotes. As I said, the space should be either a valid path character or a separator character, but not both. Why don't we just require double quoting any file path that contains an 'e' ?? It's just as valid to do that as to quote around the spaces.
-MilesAhead
I'm sure they could have done a lot of things. But they didn't. But that doesn't mean malice. And you ignored the second part of that. If you don't want to quote, and don't want to use spaces... guess, what. You don't have to. And the translation is built in.
And why do we want to be forgiving of Microsoft?
-MilesAhead
Perhaps because I contracted for them, and know that in a lot of cases that people say that they are evil, they're just misguided or made the wrong decision. Or one of many other reasons that are not a huge conspiracy. They're a company like any other. Except for working for them sucks more than a lot of other places, which is the reason that I'm glad I was just a contractor.
As you said, you're entitled to your opinion, and nothing I (or anyone else) will say will convince you otherwise. But you'll have to hold yourself to your moratorium, because if you respond, I will likely do so also. Onward!
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