long patnames

[Jan Vossen]

In my programm I try the next line:

shell "copy c:\documents and settings\jan\bam\home\tekst.txt c:\temp"

Too many parameters !! What can I do with "documents and settings" ??
I don't want to rename that directory....

Jan Vossen

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[Tom Hanlin]

COMMAND.COM only does short filenames. Look up the 8.3 version of the folder.
It's DOCUMEN~1 on my machine.

shell "copy c:\documen~1\jan\bam\home\tekst.txt c:\temp"

If you're shelling to the 32-bit command shell, CMD.EXE, you can use
the full name, but you need to put it in quotes so that the spaces aren't
taken for delimiters:

shell "copy " + CHR$(34) + "c:\documents and settings\jan\bam\home\tekst.txt" + CHR$(34) + " c:\temp"

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff