Re: [Mingw-users] Portable MSYS ?

[Earnie <ea...@us...>]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 5/9/2011 12:05 AM, Keith Marshall wrote:
>> White-space is forbidden within either of the path specifications, (and
>> quoting to circumvent this is not supported).
> 
> The workaround, for win32 paths, is to use the relevant shortpath.  In a
> cmd shell (dos prompt), dir /x will show these to you.
> 

Or cmd //c dir //x in an MSYS shell.  But not all FS are setup to store
the 8.3 path so YMMV.

> But it is still not recommended practice.
> 

Yes, we do not recommend using directories with white space in the name.

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