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Spaces in folder names and EXE name - Any problems?
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03/08/2010 16:33:38
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01475004
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01475069
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>A co-worker and I are having another debate about whether or not to use spaces in folder names and EXE names.
>
>I worked at Microsoft in the VFP group and we fixed all problems related to long file names and folder names and spaces back in either VFP5 or VFP6. I was there.
>
>For example:
>
>"c:\my stuff\my cool application.exe"
>
>Is there anything wrong with that?
>
>Will it ever not work? Or will it always work because VFP was Windows certified and it has to work?
>
>Thanks in advance.

It absolutely does always work. I only once encountered a file name was not recognized by VFP while it was perfectly valid to OS. It contained a comma.
Cetin
Çetin Basöz

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