Especially in the Unix/Linux environment, I think that creating files or directories with spaces is ill advised, but there is a reality. Many Windows users are migrating to Linux, and are bringing their habits with them. Additionally, we tend to share file systems with Windows by importing or exporting shares, or through dual booting. Also, we have Windows style file managers supplied with both GNOME and KDE. Unfortunately, people will continue to create files and directories with spaces. Even some of our Linux based systems, like Star Office and Netscape will create and possibly suggest files names containing spaces. We, as developers or systems management people need to recognize the fact that file names will contain spaces and sometimes non-printable characters.
I recall a system some time ago that dealt with this automatically, by allowing the use of underscores to refer to files with embedded spaces in the file names. I don't recall, but it may have been one of the Windows emulator systems that used to run on Unix. So, if there was a file (or directory in this case), My Documents, you could type My_Documents which would refer to the same file. -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Associate Director Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
