Spaces in Environment Variables

[Mike Miller]

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote:

>> mount -fsb "c:/Program Files" "/pgf"
>
> Agreed.
>
> A common recommendation in the Windows world is to use C:\progra~1 which 
> is GENERALLY right but not totally reliable if either of the following 
> is true:
>
> 	1) This is a second copy of Windows installed
> 		where an older C:\Progra~1 already
> 		existed -- and so we have c:\progra~2 etc.


Here's a new one to add to that:  Windows XP x64 uses *two* program files 
directories:

C:\Program Files
C:\Program Files (x86)

Most stuff now goes in the second (x86) directory because we don't yet 
have programs compiled for x64.

Mike

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