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From:	"Steven E. Harris" <seharris AT raytheon DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Filenames with spaces: very rare in Cygwin
Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:01:27 -0800
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Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> writes:

> FWIW, space is a valid filename character on both Unix and Windows.
> This means that any script that assumes filenames to be space-free
> (and lacking other shell special characters) is, IMO, broken.

Keychain has a lot of these space-in-filenames problems. I sent a
corrective patch against keychain 2.0.3 to the two listed maintainers
at the end of November, but received no reply.

-- 
Steven E. Harris        :: seharris AT raytheon DOT com
Raytheon                :: http://www.raytheon.com


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