RE: Space in compiler file name

[Dave Humphries]

Have you tried with back slashes (maybe even double back slashes) and
quotes? 

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From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dave.humphries=dytech.com.au@gnu.org
[mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dave.humphries=dytech.com.au@gnu.org] On
Behalf Of Brian Elmegaard
Sent: Tuesday, 21 February 2006 8:43 AM
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Space in compiler file name

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Did you try to quote the file name which has the embedded spaces?

Yes, I have tried:
c:/program files/dna/bin/dna.exe
'c:/program files/dna/bin/dna.exe'
"c:/program files/dna/bin/dna.exe" 
c:/program\ files/dna/bin/dna.exe 

> compile-command is conceptually a string that you would type at the 
> shell's prompt, so you need to quote or escape any characters special 
> for the shell, as you would when you type the command interactively.

I can do it in the windows shell. So emacs somehow interferes when it
passes this to the shell.

How could I escape or quote a space in a shell command?

tia,
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