Werner LEMBERG wrote:
how does, say, .so foo bar.ps behave in other troff versions? With groff, it currently tries to load `foo', ignoring the rest of the line. To be more precise, it is impossible to have a space within a file name at all! Basically, all other requests are affected too since you can't use double quotes around the file name to protect spaces. Interestingly, this problem has never come up on the list in all the years, IIRC... I wonder whether this should be changed to the behaviour of the least surprise so that `foo bar.ps' gets loaded instead. However, I haven't yet investigated whether this causes problems in the implementation.
It's bitten me before, although I never mentioned it. I'd like if it recognized the `\ ' construct, the same way most *nix shells escape spaces in file names.
-- Larry
