On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 15:57:31 +1000
Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > 
> > This was in a configure script. 
> 
> Wow.  It would never have even occurred to me to not use quotes.

Well it work on Linux so I went with it :-). In hindsight I'm a little
surprised myself.

> Err, yeah sorry.  That was a bit left field.
> 
> I know that
> OS-X marries somehow the old MacOS creator/type information that
> is kept in different 'forks' of the same file.  

Funnily enough, I've been trying to get my head around that recently.
I see zero benefit from doing it this way and a whole pile of added
headaches.

Erik
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