spaces in filenames

[Paul Prescod]

Alan Gauld wrote:
> 
> So what? Unix has supported both for a long long time. You
> just escape the spaces or quote the names.... The only
> programs that seem to get really confused are Win16 or
> old DOS programs.


Try double clicking a PDF document with a space in its path. Adobe
Acrobat 4 will not find it. It's annoying as hell because Internet
Explorer puts files from the Web in the "Temporary Internet Files"
directory.

-- 
 Paul Prescod  - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for himself
"Silence," wrote Melville, "is the only Voice of God." The assertion,
like its subject, cuts both ways, negating and affirming, implying both
absence and presence, offering us a choice; it's a line that the Society
of American Atheists could put on its letterhead and the Society of
Friends could silently endorse while waiting to be moved by the spirit
to speak. - Listening for Silence by Mark Slouka, Apr. 1999, Harper's