Aside from the \ thing, which is absolutely correct, whenever in doubt, just 
use command line completetion.  cd in /mnt/win_c and then type in the first 
few letters (in this case Arch) and then just push the Tab key.

>
>On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Tyrell wrote:
>
> > Hello all.
> >
> > I want to know how to change to a directory with spaces in his name in 
>the
> > console window. For example:
> >
> > cd /mnt/win_c/Archivos de programa/
>
>cd /mnt/win_c/Archivos\ de\ programa/
>
>You are using the \ as an ESCAPE to tell the shell to treat that as a
>space and not an end of the arguments.
>
>This goes for special characters too, like the ~ character. The shell will
>typically interpret this in other ways so if you try the following
>
>more ~file
>
>it may look for user directory named "file", but if you do this
>
>more \~file it will more the file that has the literal name "~file"
>
>Albion
>
>Albion E. Baucom
>http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~baucom
>
>

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