long file names

[desanti]

Hi:I am using awk on my windows machine and it is great.i have a problem when trying to access files with long names:
i.e. c:/Program Files/Abcd/My Folder.the caps are correct and the spaces in the file names are correct.windows stores
the filename as:c\Progra~1\Abcd\Myshar~1 because of the 8 character constraint.any help would be appreciated.thank you.

 

[vgersh99]

.....and what is the AWK-related question?

vlad
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[desanti]

vgersh99: the question is how to access the file on the command line?awk returns an error saying it cannot access the file?i have tried a number of permutations but to no avail.obviously my syntax is incorrect,but how? see original question: the first reference to c: will not work
including the various different ways that i have tried.the second reference to c: is how i would reference it in windows/using dos. thanx again.

 

[futurelet]

awk -f prog.awk "c:/Program Files/Abcd/My Folder/myfile

 

[desanti]

futurelet. thanx for your input and because of it i saw the error that i made.again thank you.