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Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 10:47:51 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: RE: complete.tcsh doesn't handle spaces in $HOME
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Hannu,

Here's the full set of recommendations:

Yours:
     Stick to [A-Za-z0-9-_.] characters in filenames, settings and such.

Plus:
     Write all your scripts to accommodate the presence of spaces and 
shell metacharacters in file names.


>This is a true pain in the ass... I wish everybody could stick to 
>iso-8859-1 or its siblings.

This is unrealistic, chauvinistic and atavistic.

Randall Schulz


At 10:35 2003-04-02, you wrote:
> > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> > Of Aaron Humphrey
>
> > An easy workaround for this problem is just to wrap all of the
> > $HOME/filename conditions in double quotes, which would probably
> > be a good idea in a future release of tcsh.  Once I did this in
> > complete.tcsh, tcsh started up just fine.
>
>My experience is:
>  You can expect to have the exact same problem with quite a few
>scripts and other software.
>
>My advice:
>  Stick to [A-Za-z0-9-_.] characters in filenames, settings and such.
>
>Sad to say, this does apply for almost any other "OS" too `:-P
>
>/Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden


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