spaces in filenames

[Tim Peters]

[ben . de . rydt at pandora . be]
> Try opening a "some bitmap with a space.bmp" in Paint, by
> double-clicking (Win95/98).

OK ... and it worked fine (Win95a -- the first, albeit up-to-date with
service packs), whether double-clicking from within Paint -> Open, or
double-clicking from within Explorer, or even typing the name (spaces and
all) by hand from within Paint -> Open.  It's only from a DOS box that I
need to slap quotes around the name.

> And try explaining people why this doesn't work, when you're
> teaching an introductory course to Win95/98.

Well, c.l.py is full of posts insisting that things that work are broken --
just reword one of those <wink>.