Hi!
I have not managed to find documentation on whether it is possible to
include in MANIFEST files with spaces in names.
Is it possible? Is it another problem?
Files with spaces are generally a BAD idea.
For example, every time you call an external program, you have quote the
arguments. Forget once, you are in big troubles, like this:
You have a kernel config file named '/boot/kernel myconfig' that you
want to delete through perl. The name is in variable $fname. You can call
`rm -f $fname`;
right?
No! You just tried to delete two files, namely '/boot/kernel' and
'myconfig'.
Depending on which operating system, shell and other things, you might
or might not have to quote in different styles.
So, unless you absolutely HAVE to, do not use files with spaces in them.
Please take a look at
<http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html>
LG
Rene
