Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > The Friday 2007-12-07 at 09:06 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > >>>> A lot of the files and some of the >>>> directories have spaces in the name. >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >>> What idiot did that? > >> The M$ world has taught virtually everyone that spaces in filenames >> are no >> problem. Each M$ user has these "folders": > > And you can have them in linux, too. No problem. Why should it be a > problem?
Linux itself has no problem seeing and using directory and file names with spaces in them, but in general it's bad practice, because historically whitespace is a parsing token. Many tools behave badly with such situations since they expect a space to be a delimiter between arguments. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
