Sam cannot handle file names with spaces. There is one way to work around this that I can think of without renaming the file. Make a new buffer with nothing in it. ("B " without the quotes is how you do that.) Then
<cat 'a b' edit ,>cat > 'a b' Clunky but so be it. Sam comes from a system where spaces in file names made no sense. -rob On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Rudolf Sykora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/10/15 Steve Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to work with files containing whitespace, >> many programs in plan9 are happy with this but sam and B >> don't appear to be (unless I have broken somthing). >> >> I can fix the buglet in B (some string flattening) but >> a cursory look at the sam source and it seems to support >> delimiters in commands (e.g. B "file with spaces in it.txt"). >> >> however I cannot open files with whitespace in their names >> even if it type them in in the sam command windows. >> >> am I missing somthing or is this a real bug? >> >> -Steve >> > > So does anybody know? I don't. :( > Ruda > >