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From: lmb7421@ultb.UUCP (L.M. Barstow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: space char in file names
Message-ID: <1227@ultb.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 89 16:47:16 GMT
References: <991@orbit.UUCP>
Reply-To: lmb7421@ultb.UUCP (L.M. Barstow)
Organization: Wandering Damage, Cosmo Police, Psi division
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In article <991@orbit.UUCP> dougm@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Doug Mcintyre) writes:
>stowekeller@pro-carolina.cts.com (Stowe Keller) writes:
>>re: allowing lowercase-period = space chr in ProDOS filenames
>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..

Wrong...Unix *does* allow the use of a space character (and *any* other
character as well...the literal, '\', can precede any character which
the command shell might mistake for another purpose...therefore, '\ '
can specify a space (and '\\' a backslash, and '\0' a NULl character)
Command shells could be fixed slightly to comply with this standard...
(they have to be changed anyway to accomodate lower-case...)

Les Barstow (back at school)
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