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re. With the single argument your file name will be broken up on white space and passed to the program as multiple arguments.

I expected this to be the case, but before posting a similar reply to yours I went and tested it with two tests (because the OP is using DOS -- I speak unix, which would not accept this and I normally only speak DOS under duress, usually in the form of extra money ;)):

cd I AM AN EXISTING DIR

type I AM AN EXISTING FILE

The DOS session (under windows NT) managed to perform these correctly and as single arguments rather than trying to access a list of files.

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