Re: Spaces in file and directory names.

[Mark Galassi <rosalia cygnus com>]

    Gisli> The directory hierarchy that is visible in the file manager
    Gisli> application has several directories with spaces in them: My
    Gisli> Documents, My Sounds and Spread Sheets.  Considering that
    Gisli> spaces in filenames may be chief in a range of silly ideas
    Gisli> that have come out of MicroSoft I would hope that the gnome
    Gisli> project would not follow this lead.

The Mac had spaces long before windows did.

But shouldn't our GUI tools work with all characters that are
supported by the file system?  Then we encourage people to not use the
spaces.

UNIX actually allows more characters in file/directory names than
Windows does.