peculiar behaviour for CD command

[kindus]

I am finding a peculiar behaviour only on my PC, Windows NT 4 Workstation.

When I try to change to a directory with two words, I get error ---Too many parameters

eg. C:\CD Program Files
Too many parameters

But I can very well do this from any other machine
Also if I give
C:\md test dir
It creates two directories test and dir.

Please let me what is the problem and action.

thanks

 

[peterve]

looks like it doesn't handle long filenames anymore

Some months ago, there was a virus which damaged some dll/exe files (including a file that it needed by the system to handle long file names)
Any chance you are/were infected ?
I would
- run an antivirus
- reinstall NT workstation from scratch, just to make sure Peter Van Eeckhoutte
peter.ve@pandora.be

 

[De8o]

Are you running cmd.exe or command.exe ?
If you use command.exe you have to use short dos names like progra~1 however if you run cmd.exe it should take the long name format. You may want to however enclose the directory name in closed quotes.. "Program Files"

Hope this helps
Darren

 

[kindus]

I was actually using command, but I tried cmd without knowing it is the solution, It worked the way you mentioned. Putting quotes is not essential, at least for me.

thanks