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- From: jsev@midland.co.nz (John Severinsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Help: amigaDos ASSIGN syntax difficulties
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 00:30:33 GMT
- Organization: Midland Internet Limited, Network Services
- Message-ID: <1422.6642T803T358@midland.co.nz>
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- On 08-Mar-96 22:53:17 (Msg ID: <3140119D.57FC@pris.bc.ca>), Doug Hayes wrote:
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- >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.
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- As with normal Amiga shell commands, if there is an embedded space in a disk /
- directory / filename, you must enclose the whole thing in quotes. You were
- almost there when you tried it, but you MUST also put the : in quites as well.
- i.e.
-
- Assign "This Great Program:" <some_path>
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- John Severinsen |- J.R.R. Tolkien
- jsev@midland.co.nz |
- <tsb>Thor 2.22, 09-Mar-96 13:20:46
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- Hear about the skeleton who didn't attend the ball?
- It had no body to go with
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