spaces in filenames

Gordon McMillan gmcm at hypernet.com
Thu Jun 15 08:30:19 EDT 2000


Paul Prescod wrote:

>Try double clicking a PDF document with a space in its path. Adobe
>Acrobat 4 will not find it. It's annoying as hell because Internet
>Explorer puts files from the Web in the "Temporary Internet Files"
>directory.

That's the installer's fault, not Acrobat 4's. Just (double)quote the %1 in 
the open action for the file type.

I get a big kick out of MS's habitual use of paths with embedded spaces. 
Sort of a barometer of hubris.

- Gordon





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