newbie question re: MS filenames

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 05 May 2003 17:48:12 -0700
Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:

> Tony Alfrey wrote:
> 
> >This is a really dumb question that I'm embarrased to even ask.
> >I'm trying to run wine on .exe files on an Adobe Illustrator CD 
> >(Microsoft).
> >The microsoft file names have blank spaces in the filenames and 
> >directory names.  So I can't open the file or directory from the 
> >command line when I reproduce the file name with the space bar as a 
> >space.  But the files or directory opens from Konqueror with a mouse 
> >click.  So what character is really hiding in the "space"??
> >
> >  
> >
> Put the filename with a space in quotes
> "filename with space.exe"

BTW, this is not a Unix requirement. When MS started putting spaces in
names, all the PATH and such variables needed quotes as well. Or you had to
figure out the 8 character equivalent name and hope it did not change.

Unix has always (in my 15 years of use) supported spaces in names. It was
just discouraged for the reason that all these damned quotes would be a
PITA. And they are.

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