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FIX: Tools Won't Run If There's a Space in the Path

Article ID: 140024

Article Last Modified on 10/17/2003

Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Visual C++ 4.2 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual C++ 4.1 Subscription

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SYMPTOMS

Trying to run a user-defined tool that has a space in the path results in this error:

Bad command or file name

RESOLUTION

Use one of the following two workarounds:

Call the command interpreter in either Windows 95 or Windows NT, and pass the path in quotation marks. For example:

In Windows 95:
COMMAND.COM /c "d:\batch dir\batch.bat"
In Windows NT:
CMD.EXE /c "d:\batch dir\batch.bat"
-or-
Use the short name of the tool.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug was corrected in Visual C++ version 5.0.

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