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From: Laird.J..Heal@f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Laird J. Heal)
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Subject: Re: MPW & spaces in pathnames
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Date: 30 Dec 90 06:13:58 GMT
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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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