Re: Filenames with spaces: very rare in Cygwin

2004-01-15 Thread Hack Kampbjorn
Steven E. Harris wrote: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: Filenames with spaces: very rare in Cygwin

2004-01-15 Thread Steven E. Harris
Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 p

Re: Filenames with spaces: very rare in Cygwin

2004-01-15 Thread fergus
> 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. Yes, I see the force of this. Thank you. I will look at the script and try to amend it so that

Re: Filenames with spaces: very rare in Cygwin

2004-01-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the entire Cygwin provision there are only 3 filenames containing spaces, > all under /usr/ssl/man. Up until recently, I think there was only one, being > /usr/local/ssl/man/man7/Modes\ of\ DES.7. The other two are under > /usr/local/ssl/man/man3/.