Posted by John T. Lovejoy on April 03, 2008 at 04:33:57:
In Reply to: Re: DOS path name on C:\ is longer than 8 characters. What is the work around? posted by 20080403 on April 03, 2008 at 03:12:21:
: : 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.
: ##
: Simply enclose the complete path between double-quotes. For example:
: dir "c:\documents and settings\owner"
: cd "c:\documents and settings\owner"
How simple! Thank you again.