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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Kernel Hacks & Weird Filenames
Message-ID: <972@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 14 May 88 08:53:10 GMT
References: <13041@brl-adm.ARPA> <4895@chinet.UUCP> <574@minya.UUCP> <24@csnz.nz>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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In article <24@csnz.nz>, paul@csnz.nz (Paul Gillingwater) writes:
> Does that mean that a naive user can make a file with a <SPACE>
> in the name?   e.g.   "John Doe" or "Job Cost" or other equally
> "intuitively correct" but WRONG names...:-)

Yes you can make such file names (I often do), and what's wrong with them?
	cat >"Job Cost" <<EOF
	...
	EOF
	ed "Job Cost"
	...
	lpr Job\ Cost
Works fine.  Why should a shell's lexical conventions dictate what sort of
file names I can use in window-based tools?  (The program I use most often
on a Mac has a space in its name...)