Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 10:31:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT 55-174 DOT hy DOT cgocable DOT ca>
Reply-To: pierre AT tycho DOT com
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Subject: Re: BIG suggestion for Opendos Features
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On Wed, 7 May 1997 yeep AT xs4all DOT nl wrote:

> > I'd love full case sensitivity that can be turned off (collisions handled 
> > through mangling). Case preservation is undiscutable. PLEASE, for the
> > command-line users among us (that's Open*DOS*, right?), don't let spaces
> > characters creep in!
> 
> If you don't want spaces, don't use them.
> You can use spaces on EXT2, but I've never seen anybody do it.
> Well aside from myself then, but I quit doing it, 'cos it sucked big time.

How do you do spaces in filenames in Linux? How does bash reacts to this?
And the fileutils (like ls)? Anyway, quoting a filename is losing IMHO, so
spaces should be out... ;-)

Pierre Phaneuf