Luis EG Ontanon wrote:
> On 10/24/07, Jeff Morriss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Since it's primarily Windows that should have this problem (AFAICR most
>> *NIXs allow anything other than "/" in a file name) it should be easy
>> enough to find a list of prohibited chars.
> 
> in *NIX filenames  with spaces  are particularly tedious... I
> personally would forbid spaces in filenames en-toto as they tend to
> make scripts fail...

Haha, a friend of mine used to keep a program around whose file name was 
" " (just a space) to confound *NIX newbies.  (I can't remember if the 
program did anything interesting or not.)

More seriously, though, those working inside some desktop environment 
(like GNOME) don't have to worry about what's in file names since the 
environment takes care of making sure the file names are handled 
appropriately.

(Your preference does make an argument to have the list of 
chars-banned-from-file-names configurable though in thinking more about 
it now I'm not sure where such a preference would be.)
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