re: Abbreviating with ~ in the address bar Saturday, September 20, 2003 at 10:58 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Adam Bradley (7823 messages posted) All you need to do is enclose the path in quotation marks IE if you want to set it to I:\Adam Bradley\My Documents You can use ether I:\AdamBr~1\MyDocu~1 or " I:\Adam Bradley\My Documents" I don’t know of a site that really explains the 8.3 conversion rule well or I would post it here Regards, Adam Bradley On Friday, September 19, 2003 at 6:59 pm, Arthur A. wrote: >I am trying to use the subst command on my computer, but it doesn't allow spaces >to be used. I am able to access some folders using the ~ key, but others I cannot. >The ones I can are represented like: > C:\Docume~1\...; or C:\PROGRA~1; or > Docume~1\Owner\Local~s. Other than, these, and a couple other within the documents >and settings folder, I don't know what would be used. > If someone could tell me how to determine what to type before the ~ and after >it, whether its a number or a letter, I would have much appretiation for them. >Thanks in Advance. >Arthur A. Written in response to: Abbreviating with ~ in the address bar (Arthur: Friday, September 19, 2003 at 6:59 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Abbreviating with ~ in the address bar (Arthur: Fri, Sep 19, 2003, 6:59 pm) re: Abbreviating with ~ in the address bar (jcw: Fri, Sep 19, 2003, 7:24 pm) re: Abbreviating with ~ in the address bar (MindBender: Sat, Sep 20, 2003, 9:12 am) re: Abbreviating with ~ in the address bar (Adam Bradley: Sat, Sep 20, 2003, 10:58 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum