One factor that is slightly unusual about this phenomenon is that it only occurs with GHC, but not with Hugs 98. Typing :cd "D:\From C Drive\Documents and Settings\DekuDekuplex\Programming Practice\Haskell\GHC" in Hugs 98 does not cause an error, but typing the same command in GHC does. It seems that Hugs 98 allows spaces in filenames/paths, but GHC doesn't. Is there any way to configure GHC so that it accepts the same type of filenames/paths as Hugs 98? Benjamin L. Russell --- "Benjamin L. Russell" wrote:

Please pardon this intrusion for an elementary question on setting the GHC search path.

I have installed GHC on my work Windows XP machine, and would like to be able to search for files in the following directory:

D:\From C Drive\Documents and Settings\DekuDekuplex\Programming Practice\Haskell\GHC

However, when I type the following command into the GHC interpreter:

:cd "D:\From C Drive\Documents and Settings\DekuDekuplex\Programming Practice\Haskell\GHC"

I get the following error message:

*** Exception: "D:\From C Drive\Documents and Settings\DekuDekuplex\Programming Practice\Haskell\GHC": setCurrentDirectory: invalid argument (Invalid argument)

Yet, for testing purposes, when I type the following command:

:cd cygwin

I do not get any error message.

There seems to be a problem with the spaces in the filename. However, I would like to be able to use the "D:\From C Drive\Documents and Settings\DekuDekuplex\Programming Practice\Haskell\GHC" directory for GHC programming practice, because I keep my practice work for my other programming languages in the same super-super-directory.

Does anybody know a way to specify "D:\From C Drive\Documents and Settings\DekuDekuplex\Programming Practice\Haskell\GHC" as a directory in the search path for GHC?

Benjamin L. Russell _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

In GHC it works without the " and don't work with them: Prelude> :cd C:\Documents and Settings Prelude> :! pwd C:\Documents and Settings Olivier. On 10/29/07, Benjamin L. Russell wrote:

Please pardon this intrusion for an elementary question on setting the GHC search path.

I have installed GHC on my work Windows XP machine, and would like to be able to search for files in the following directory:

D:\From C Drive\Documents and Settings\DekuDekuplex\Programming Practice\Haskell\GHC

However, when I type the following command into the GHC interpreter:

:cd "D:\From C Drive\Documents and Settings\DekuDekuplex\Programming Practice\Haskell\GHC"

I get the following error message:

*** Exception: "D:\From C Drive\Documents and Settings\DekuDekuplex\Programming Practice\Haskell\GHC": setCurrentDirectory: invalid argument (Invalid argument)

Yet, for testing purposes, when I type the following command:

:cd cygwin

I do not get any error message.

There seems to be a problem with the spaces in the filename. However, I would like to be able to use the "D:\From C Drive\Documents and Settings\DekuDekuplex\Programming Practice\Haskell\GHC" directory for GHC programming practice, because I keep my practice work for my other programming languages in the same super-super-directory.

Does anybody know a way to specify "D:\From C Drive\Documents and Settings\DekuDekuplex\Programming Practice\Haskell\GHC" as a directory in the search path for GHC?

Benjamin L. Russell _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe