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from: Mike O`Connor
date: 2005-01-10 01:55:22
subject: Re: spaces in names

Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:

>In , on 01/10/2005 
>   at 01:46 PM, "Mike O'Connor"  said:
>  
>
>>Of course in many cases "quotes" doesn't have to be plural.
>>An example would be:
>>    
>>
>>[X:\] CD "Why has this f******* directory got spaces in it [ENTER]
>>    
>>
>>as only the opening quote is required in OS/2 eCS if there are no 
>>arguments to the command.
>>    
>>
>
>Mike
>
>     That is news to me.
>
>     However, spaces in names are still a PITA.  Especially in REXX
>programming
>

Hi Don,

You mean as in parsing over embedded spaces, when separating the arguments?
Haven't got around to that yet!

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Mike

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