Microsoft KB Archive/140024

= FIX: Tools Won't Run If There's a Space in the Path =

Article ID: 140024

Article Last Modified on 10/17/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual C++ 4.2 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual C++ 4.1 Subscription

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This article was previously published under Q140024



SYMPTOMS
Trying to run a user-defined tool that has a space in the path results in this error:

Bad command or file name



RESOLUTION
Use one of the following two workarounds:  Call the command interpreter in either Windows 95 or Windows NT, and pass the path in quotation marks. For example:

In Windows 95:

COMMAND.COM /c "d:\batch dir\batch.bat"

In Windows NT:

CMD.EXE /c "d:\batch dir\batch.bat"

-or- Use the short name of the tool.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug was corrected in Visual C++ version 5.0.

Additional query words: kbVC400bug

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbide kbvc500fix KB140024

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