jonck said:
Hi,
Though I don't know much about DOS myself, I do know that the command "cd" has nothing to do with Java. "cd" is the command that you give when you want to navigate to a different directory. Same as under Unix, you cannot have spaces in the name of the directory that you are navigating to or it complains of you sending too many arguments.
In this case you are sending 2 arguments: "My" and "Documents".
In order to navigate to that folder, therefore you have negate that space by putting an escape character in front of it. When you do that, the interpreter knows that you don't want the space taken literally (meaning as a divider between arguments) but you want it to be part of your directory name.
In Unix you can tell the interpreter to not take the space litterally in two ways:
1) cd My\ Documents
2) cd "My Documents"
Gill Bates never was very original, so no doubt DOS will function much the same way 😉
that's interesting and has occured to me since i tried My_Documents
unfortunately the examples in the book showing the DOS screen with what supposed to be white letters bled through and the pages are almost all black and cannot be read...how's that for luck??
at least 1.3.1 installed into my pc laptop from the cd-rom
some people have to go into the BIOS and/or registry of a windows pc machine to even make the compiler go into the computer...for some reason compilers don't load as easily, as often, as let's say a game or photos
being cross platform is fine and dandy, but having the cd disks not load up on macs *as was the case with this disk, was a bummer...the cd said it loads on all operating systems...that meant windows, solaris, unix, linux, and even be-os
...because all they said was type the source code in any program, on a mac, then drag it into the environment and hit "compile"
as with almost anthing programming related, especially java, all the components of learning it, from the cd to the book to the examples/exercises, to the the actual compiling, is a maze and too hard for techies to write in english and too hard techinically for writers to understand
it's been my pet peeve that technical people are almost always bad writers and communicators and good writers are almost always bad techies...there could be something to the left-brain dominance or right-brain dominance thing...similar to most people being right handed or left handed
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all the aptitute tests said i was good to be an engineer or a technician, but something related to math...when i look at tech specs, i get embarrassed since i know more than i should...i feel my geekiness coming out and wonder if i will turn into a fat, jolt drinking,fritos eating, greasy techie who rarely bathes
😉
actually in silicon valley, they do bathe since a ton of them hang out at the nudist colonies, like elephant seals, and sit in the hot tubs all day and talk computers
so, life story here, he he, i tried being an english major for three semesters and massage the "other" side of my brain...i must have averaged a "D" average in all those courses...an instructor would say something like, "see that vase over there, pretend it was your girlfriend/boyfriend, and then tell me how it would feel if it fell down and broke?"...people would write amazing ten page works of fiction in the hour while i just sat there totally stumped
to this day, i still find writing very fun...thus my many posts, but my strength in computer hardware techie stuff pays the bills and is what comes easy to me in college and everyday life
programming would come easier though, even know i know it's not directly computer hardware related per se, if there were some good books on online documentation that could take me step by step from the beginning written by that rare person who knows how to program and how to write
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