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menards   05-11-2005 at 06:27:45 AM

Hi, can DOS delete files whose filenames have a space in them?

ex.

star wars.avi

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Riser   05-11-2005 at 03:15:42 PM
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Try putting quotes around the file name..

del "C:\delete me.txt"

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