[Haskell-cafe] Newbie Question on Setting the GHC Search Path

[Benjamin L. Russell]

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" <dekudekuplex at yahoo.com>
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
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