Microsoft KB Archive/155564

= EXPAND Command Does Not Recognize Path with Spaces =

Article ID: 155564

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition

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This article was previously published under Q155564



SYMPTOMS
The EXPAND command does not work if the file you want to expand has spaces in its name. For example, the following command does not work:

expand /l c:\temp stuff

This command generates the following error message:

Can't open input file: temp



RESOLUTION
Enclose the entire path in quotation marks. For example, using the same command as above, you would type:

expand /l "c:\temp stuff"

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