Subject: Re: BOUNCE abiword-dev@abisource.com: Non-member submission from ["Mascha Heisterborg"
Jesper Skov wrote:
It doesn't. :-<
/Mike - please don't cc
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: Wed Dec 27 2000 - 06:18:53 CST
From: Mike Nordell (tamlin@algonet.se)
Date: Wed Dec 27 2000 - 03:56:49 CST
> >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Nordell <tamlin@algonet.se> writes:
>
> Mike> Reson: M$. When it comes to giving filenames with embedded
> Mike> spaces as arguments to programs, M$ don't include these
> Mike> filenames in ".
>
> Really? So how does an application determine whether two words are two
> arguments or one separated with space?
The code that performs the filename expansion simply performs a string
expansion where it *should* have checked the filename for whitespace and add
quotes if needed. This bonehead behaviour is a source of many problems,
including the one I commented on. You manually have to add the quotes to
make it work. Just another documented "feature".