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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] spaces in file/dir names? (and acme)?
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In-Reply-To: <036e52b3039408cb6ebbc113c03a8c65@plan9.escet.urjc.es>; from Fco.J.Ballesteros on Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:57:42PM +0200
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 19:03:14 +0200
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On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:57:42PM +0200, Fco.J.Ballesteros wrote:
>
> I still dislike file names with spaces because of the madness
> that may cause in scripts and program arguments, but perhaps
> others think otherwise.

Allow is not the same as encourage, and my sentiments are only a
little stronger than yours:  spaces in file names are an unavoidable
curse.  I suppose the word delimiter on the command line could have
been something less convenient...

++L