spaces in filenames

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at gssec.bt.co.uk
Tue Jun 13 09:48:23 EDT 2000


>           Pisses me off too. Long filenames great, but allowing
> spaces is just silly, when spaces have been command-line
> delimiters all along. 

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.

Alan g.

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