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From: laird@chinet.chi.il.us (Laird J. Heal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW & spaces in pathnames
Keywords: BUG? FIXED
Message-ID: <1990Dec29.221358.18317@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 29 Dec 90 22:13:58 GMT
References: <1990Dec27.173958.18413@CAM.ORG>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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In article <1990Dec27.173958.18413@CAM.ORG> pascal@CAM.ORG (Pascal Gosselin) writes:
>Turns out that the script was built in a way that didn't allow SPACES
>in path.  I happened to still have my HD named to the default "Macintosh HD"
>(yes, A little pathetic, oh well!) and this causing all of the problems.

Wherever there is a file name, put double-quotes around anything that is
not wild-carded (? or option-x) and almost all of your troubles will be
solved.

My internal drive is named "/" partially just to catch errors of this
type.  If I really wanted to cause myself some trouble, I would name it
'"' or '"/' or something similar, so I could have fun escaping quotes in
the proper places.

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