Subject: Re: Filenames with spaces: very rare in Cygwin
From: "Steven E. Harris" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:01:27 -0800

Igor Pechtchanski <[email-masked]> 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.

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Steven E. Harris        :: [email-masked]
Raytheon                :: http://www.raytheon.com

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