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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
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- Subject: Re: Help: amigaDos ASSIGN syntax difficulties
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 96 22:01:19
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- Doug Hayes (dhayes@pris.bc.ca) wrote:
- : Hi. I would apprecicate any help in answering the following question
- : regarding assigns? When the volume being assigned has more than one
- : word in it's title, such as - assign This Great Program:, I seem to run into
- : trouble and the assign will not work. I have tried including an underline
- : between each word (which were not in the original disk title) - assign
- : This_Great_Program: and I have tried putting it within quotes, assign
- : "This Great Program": but nothing seems to work. The second part of the
- : assign command, i.e. the path and directory syntax seem to be ok and work
- : fine. Could anyone offer any advice. Thanks very much.
-
- The colon must be within quotes too.
-
- For example:
-
- New Shell process 11
- 11.Blister:> Assign "This Great Program:" RAM:
- 11.Blister:> CD "This Great Program:"
- 11.Ram Disk:>
-
- No problems. Remember that you must enclose the assign (and indeed any path
- which contains spaces) in quotes with all command line programs. Examples:
-
- Dir "This Great Program:"
- CD "This Great Program:Env"
- Copy "This Great Program:Env/#?" ENVARC: ALL
- Copy "This Great Program:Env/#?" "DH0:Directory name containing spaces" ALL
- Delete "This Great Program:Env/#?" ALL
-
- etc.
-
- -- Mat.
-