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

• Microsoft Visual C++ 32-bit Edition, versions 4.0, 4.1, 4.2

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 : kbide kbVC kbVC500fix kbGrpDSTools
Version : :4.0,4.1,4.2
Platform : NT WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug