David Eckard wrote:

>In , on 01/09/2005 
>   at 02:31 PM, os2userl{at}wpusa.dynip.com said:
>
>>apologies if this sounds "harsh" or so but that seems
pretty ignorant
>>and/or stupid... why?!? what valid technical reason would you or anyone
>>else have for that "rule"???
>>    
>>
>
>He has several
>
>1)  Some programs are too stupid to deal with spaces in names 2)  Many, if
>not most people don't like having to put directory and or file names in
>quotes 3)  There are plenty of old timers that never left 8.3
>  
>

Hi David, Don, Steve et al.,

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.

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