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From: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: space char in file names
Summary: wrong.
Message-ID: <16981@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 8 Sep 89 22:24:06 GMT
References: <991@orbit.UUCP>
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Reply-To: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Andy McFadden)
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In article <991@orbit.UUCP> dougm@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Doug Mcintyre) writes:
[snip]
>                                Especially since no other OS that works with a
>command shell has spaces in files names (ie. messy-dos & Unix.. ) I could be
>wrong about messy-dos, since I've never used it..

You are right about MS-DOS, but wrong about UNIX.

Try the line
% touch "foo bar"
under BSD...

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