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From: bmacintyre@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: \
Message-ID: <9845@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 22 May 89 21:05:48 GMT
References: <31453@sri-unix.SRI.COM>
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In article <31453@sri-unix.SRI.COM> paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes:
>Why should you have to specify the full pathname if the file name with
>the colon is within double quotes.  It seems to me that anything within
>double quotes should not be interpreted.  Unfortunately, that's not
>what happens.

If you can't put device names in quotation marks then how would you
specify a device name with a space in it?

Or, a full path name with a space somewhere in it?

	dh1:"bills car" 

No, I think the quote should be around the whole thing ...

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