Another way of getting around this kind of issue on Windows is to use subst.
C:\Documents and Settings\abc>subst k: "c:\Documents and Settings\abc"
C:\Documents and Settings\abc>dir
...28 File(s)...
C:\Documents and Settings\abc>k:
K:\>dir
...28 File(s)...
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