On Sun 12 Oct 2014 13:43:28 Axel Kielhorn wrote: > While the grops man page says: > > fields may be separated by tabs or spaces; > > This is slightly inconsistent. > (Of course you can argue that these are different programs > and expecting them to use the same syntax is naïve. I wouldn't disagree.) > > > Deri can certainly give more details why spaces are not allowed, > > contrary to grops. > > Axel
The reason is because the gropdf download file can include directory/filenames which may include spaces (this is especially true for windows installation). So it does not make a good choice as a field separator. Cheers Deri
