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Re: [ARSCLIST] Underscore in file names



--- Ganesh.Irelan@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> For those of you using computer files for archiving, do you use
> space bar spaces in your file names or underscores?  Is there a
> reason to avoid space bar spaces in file names?

Whitespace is considered a delineation between file
names in any OS except Windoze.  It's terribly inconvenient
to accommodate this Microsoft vanity in Unix or other
OS'es, as it requires the file names to be placed in
quotes wherever the files are referred to.


David Breneman         david_breneman@xxxxxxxxx

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