[thelist] Linux Port to Home - Solved

This same trick works in windows, and can be handy if you're dealing with
older windows programs, or batch files (remember those?) or windows
scripting host files (vbs) ....

and I can't dig it up right now (its eluding me like the space between light
and dark), but there's a reg hack for windows that does auto-complete --i'll
see if i can't dig it up as the day goes on....

sgd
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel J. Cody [mailto:dcody@oracular.com]
> 
> You can still access 'wierd' windows file/directory names 
> from linux by
> wrapping quotes "" around the name.. 
> 
> For example, lets say I have a drive mounted on /win and want 
> to get to
> my Netscape mail folder.
> On windows, it would be C:\Program
> Files\Netscape\Users\longerthan8letters\Mail\InboxAlsoLongerTh
> an8.3.mbox
> 
> To get to that from Linxu, you'd just have to wrap the quotes 
> around it,
> like so:
> 
> [djc@handy djc]$ cd "/win/Program
> Files/Netscape/Users/longerthan8letters/Mail/InboxAlsoLongerTh
> an8.3.mbox"
> 
> You can also use the bash autocomplete feature(hit tab to fill out a
> file name) to do this automagically..