Posted by 20080403 on April 03, 2008 at 03:12:21:
In Reply to: DOS path name on C:\ is longer than 8 characters. What is the work around? posted by John T. Lovejoy on April 02, 2008 at 16:32:57:
: I am unable to use the DIR or the CD command
: when I specify C:\documents and settings\owner
: as the path name because of the limitation on
: the root drive of 256 directories. I understand
: the Eight Point Three format for the root
: directory. Is there a way to work around this
: limitation? I have tried to re-name the
: directory to a shorter name, but the
: Windows XP system will not all that. Thanks in
: advance.
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Simply enclose the complete path between double-quotes. For example:
dir "c:\documents and settings\owner"
cd "c:\documents and settings\owner"