Installation paths

Many of the tools that we'll use come from the Unix world. In Unix commands, a space is a token separator unless an expression is quoted. Unfortunately Microsoft was so proud of their long filenames in Windows95 (after every other OS had them since decades) that they didn't spend much time thinking how to use them properly. Thus spaces were allowed in paths, screwing up lots of applications from other vendors. This general screw-up was neatly achieved by using C:/Program Files as the default folder for applications.

Please be warned that it is not a good idea to use paths with spaces for any of the tools used in this tutorial. Unless you positively want to shoot yourself in the foot, you should use something like C:/Programs as your applications folder and avoid all spaces in the subdirectories.