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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: space char in file names
Message-ID: <11002@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 9 Sep 89 02:00:54 GMT
References: <991@orbit.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <991@orbit.UUCP> dougm@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Doug Mcintyre) writes:
>probably confuse many a people. 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're definitely wrong about UNIX.  It allows spaces in file names.
And you're right about it confusing many people..