Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!zerkle
From: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Protect Flags & Filenames w/spaces
Message-ID: <8499@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 91 02:00:16 GMT
References: <17252@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Sender: usenet@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu
Reply-To: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
Distribution: usa
Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Lines: 17

In article <17252@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> zz96sr@sdacs.ucsd.edu (Steve Rusk) writes:
>
>     Sorry to bug the net, but I don't have any fellow Amigans around here
>to ask.

This sort of question is one of the reasons for using .introduction.

>     What's the trick to setting protect flags on files that have names
>with spaces in them?

Generally, whenever you want to refer to file names with wierd
characters in them, you should surround them with quotes:

cli> protect "my file" +d

           Dan Zerkle  zerkle@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu  (916) 754-0240
           Amiga...  Because life is too short for boring computers.