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- From: Richard Lavey <richard@startide.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Help: amigaDos ASSIGN syntax difficulties
- Date: Sat, 9 Mar 96 18:06:06 GMT
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- Doug Hayes (dhayes@pris.bc.ca) led us to believe
- in <3140119D.57FC@pris.bc.ca> that...
- > 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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- Try Assign "This Great Program:" <path>
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