Wait...I thought spaces "were/are" illegal in *nix?

Mark

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:25:28 +0100 (CET), Paul said:

> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, John Rye wrote:
>  
>  
>  >I would have thought that a space was an undesirable if not illegal
>  >character in a filename let alone a directory name.
>  >
>  >Is this not the case?
>  
>  If it were illegal, I think that someone would have made a program
>  alteration that would prevent you from putting a space in a directory
>  name. I agree though, that it is undesirable.
>  
>  Paul
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