Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Steven E. Harris" Subject: Re: Filenames with spaces: very rare in Cygwin Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:01:27 -0800 Organization: Raytheon Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <000b01c3db63$4c975fe0$580210ac@tcgp.dundee.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, cygwin32) Igor Pechtchanski 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. -- Steven E. Harris :: seharris@raytheon.com Raytheon :: http://www.raytheon.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/