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May 15, 2007 - The Old New Thing

Command lines need to be quoted; paths don't

May 15, 2007 May 15, 2007 05/15/07
Raymond Chen
While it's true that one category of problems comes from failing to quote spaces in command lines, it is a false statement that "path names in the registry should have quotation marks around them for obvious reasons." In fact it's the opposite. Path names should not be quoted. Think about it: Quotation marks are a parsing issue, not a file ...