I said:

> 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!

Meant to add that I rarely ever type those long-names into the 
command-line, I just copy off the dirlisting etc., and then 
paste into the command-line with opening and if necessary 
closing quotes.

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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