DOS question

[nothing]

Can somebody tell me how to I access a folder called My last holiday pictures (for example) using DOS? Thanks.

[Johnny Fist]

dir x:\path to folder\My last holiday pictures will list the contents of the folder.

cd x:\path to folder\My last holiday pictures will change directories to the holiday pictures directory.

after that you can just use dir to list the contents.

[fishybawb]

Johhny's stuff'll work for DOS in-a-console-box, but on the off-chance you're referring to "pure" DOS the filenames will be reduced to the 8.3 format ie. 8 characters (no spaces) and an extension. C:\My last holiday pictures\ would become C:\MYLAST~1\ - assuming there aren't any other similarly named folders, in which case the 1 might be a 2 upwards.

[Baddog]

If you are trying to recover the folder, try GetDataBack.http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm
The trial version will at least show the dir.

[nothing]

I'm asking because I wrote a little program that creates simple websites and one of the questions it asks to the user is "Where are the files? " and the user has to specify the path. As it is just for personal use, I'll just stick with single name folders. Thanks you everybody.

[rraehal]

Don't forget the Quotes in you program. If the path to files has a space in the name you need to use quotes.

"C:\Documents and Settings" for example.

[crusious31]

In the command prompt type

"cd c:\"

cd is for common directory
Press return

You should then see the c:\> directory

you can then use the dir command to browse the directory and typeing the
cd c:\ + path to the information you are trying to get to.

[Johnny Fist]

We already established that.