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Q140024: FIX: Tools Won’t Run If There’s a Space in the Path

Article: Q140024
Product(s): Microsoft C Compiler
Version(s): 4.0,4.1,4.2
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbide kbVC kbVC500fix kbGrpDSTools
Last Modified: 30-JUL-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Visual C++, versions 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 
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SYMPTOMS
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Trying to run a user-defined tool that has a space in the path results in this
error:

  Bad command or file name

RESOLUTION
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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
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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.

Additional query words: kbVC400bug

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Keywords          : kbide kbVC kbVC500fix kbGrpDSTools 
Technology        : kbVCsearch kbVC400 kbAudDeveloper kbVC410 kbVC420
Version           : :4.0,4.1,4.2
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfix

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