In , on 01/11/05 
   at 03:33 PM, "Maynard Riley" 
typed:

>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.

Windows programs are not immune to some of these problems.

 
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