Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri <at> yahoo.it> writes: > Don't use filename with a space inside is a WELL KNOWN > rule of any UNIX system. > If MS made a stupid decision, we should not follow it. > > Regards > Marco
It really doesn't matter to me whether cygport supports filenames with spaces. And it is certainly true that filenames with spaces are relatively common on Windows systems, but relatively rare on unix systems. Nevertheless, there is no rule about this. Actually I believe POSIX allows filenames to have *any* character in them except a directory separator '/' or a terminating null '\0'. It is well known that *robust* scripts should use proper quoting to allow for things like spaces in filenames. -- Eric -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
