How do you run a program from the command prompt?

Hi,

I opened up a DOS window(Start->Programs->MSDOS prompt) and the program I want to run is named text.exe and it's in this directory:

C:\Beginning C++\test\Debug

I used

cd C:\

to get to the C:\> prompt, but when I tried to do this:

C:\>cd Beginning C++\test\Debug
Too many parameters - C++\test\Debug

I got that error. I think the space in the "Beginning C++" directory is causing problems. What should I do?

Never mind: quote marks.

cd "Beginning C++\test\Debug"

Just a note, the command prompt from WinXP doesn't have this problem. It works fine without the quotes.

cd beginn~1\test\Debug

That's a shortcut for identifying long file/directory names.

Not very portable though. What if there's a directory called 'Beginning C'? Then you'd have to reference 'Beginning C++' as 'Beginn~2'.

this if the "formula" you would use (if you didn't get it from the previous examples:

[first six letters]~[number of files with same first 6 letters, starting at 1].[three char extension]

for example:

longfilenameC.cpp
longfilenameC++.cpp

would be:

longfi~1.cpp
longfi~2.cpp

in that order...