In Win XP Pro, SP2, all updates but SP3, in the CMD interpreter (the native NT 
shell provided) it does not work here.

ie:
D:\windows>dir c:/temp
Parameter format not correct - "emp".

BUT, enclosing the destination in "" does make it work, as in:
dir "c:/temp"

Not sure if all parameters would need to be in the quotes or what if one had 
some to use with a particular command.


Timothy J. Weber wrote:
> Apptech wrote:
> 
> It doesn't work with the 'dir' command, because that program scans for 
> arguments first, and gets confused when it finds the "argument 
> introduction" character with no valid argument after it.
> 
> But Windows *does* do the translation in the file APIs, so if you type:
> 
> 	dir "c:/zzz"
> 
> it'll work just the same as with a backslash.
> 
> But DOS never did this, in my recollection.  I'm going to change the 
> Wikipedia article.
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