[PD] DOS prompt

[martin.peach at sympatico.ca]

> 
> From: derek holzer <derek at x-i.net>
> Date: 2006/11/27 Mon PM 05:17:41 EST
> To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org>
> CC: pd-list at iem.at
> Subject: Re: [PD] DOS prompt
> 
> Hi HC,
> 
> Thanks for this:
> 
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> > Pd-extended and Pd vanilla are installed into %PROGRAMFILES%\pd\bin\pd.exe.
> > 
> > %PROGRAMFILES is a environment variable that varies depending on the 
> > language of the install.  Some possibilties:
> > 
> > C:\Program Files
> 
> Is there an escape character possible here?
> 
> As in "C:\Program/ Files\pd\bin\pd.exe"? I remember this space was a 
> problem when I was trying this on Windows long ago.

It shouldn't be a problem on recent Windows. You can always put the whole path in quotes, like "C:\Program Files", to make sure. If I type:
echo %PROGRAMFILES%
 in a command prompt it gives me this:
C:\Program Files


Martin