So I’ve just learn’t something new, so thought I’d share it!

As you may or may not know,  when specifying an argument to a program on the command line, spaces in path names are not allowed.

To get around this you can surround a path with “quotes” or you can use DOS 8.3. When in the parent directory containing the directory with a space in the name (e.g. C:\ and Program Files) type \X and you can see the 8.3 shortcut. For Program Files it is PROGRA~1 (that’s a tilde (~)).

This should get you around the problem nicely .

This is my first post, I’m going to put up any thoughts I have regarding technology and any resources I find whilst undertaking my web  design work. I often come accross some pretty useful tutorials and code snippets so i’ll stick them up here too.

Hopefully after a few posts I might have some readers! Maybe or maybe not!

Keep it real,

Phil