stan wrote: > Right, spaces in filenames is a disease. Why? > The vector for spreading this disease has largely been microsloth, and all of > the uneducated users they > brought to the party. > Why does spaces in names = a lack of education? Perhaps the clearest way to label a file includes a space? > Not a reason _not_ to handle them corectly, though, just an editorial > comment. > IMO there's nothing intrinsically wrong with any character in a file name, as long as it makes sense with regards to your naming conventions. The only difficulty it causes is if your tools can't handle that character very well. These days, *even* on UNIX, most tools should handle spaces in filenames just fine.
Graeme
