On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 19:42:33 -0500, David Eckard wrote:

>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

That statement is really irritating, David.

Spaces have a very important and specific use as THE delimiting
separator of command line parameters for all kinds of utility programs;
and when you try to pipe and call these in a chain, and some of the
programs derive filenames from other sources than your quoted strings,
you have a real mess real soon, without being stupid or pissy about
quotes.

The same problems apply, most specifically to/within OS/2, with the use
of multiple periods in filenames.

Cheers/2,
--Maynard




 
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