Re: Spaces in file and directory names.

["Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery hilfy ece cmu edu>]

In message <m3hfuvb37m.fsf@hydro.gen.nz>, Sam Vilain writes:
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| Also, if we ever port to the Mac, that filesystem even supports "/"
| characters in filenames, from what I've heard.  Maybe we don't care
| about that.
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Macs use a colon as a path separator, i.e. "Apps Drive:App 1:Data Files:Foo".

People who've used older Unix office programs (i.e. Uniplex word processor) 
often have files sitting around with strange names.  GNOME programs should not 
fall over when confroonted with such.

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