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[Sascha Wuestemann <address@hidden>]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 09:47:12AM +0100 or thereabouts, Javier Arántegui 
Jiménez wrote:
[..] 
> I have solved the problem renaming the directory where the figure was to 
> Practicas_planta_piloto. I know that it's not a very good practice to use 
> spaces in the directory and file names but nowadays it shouldn't be a 
> problem.
> 
> Although I don't know a word about programming, I suppose that TeXmacs 
> sends 
> the following command:
> 
> fig2ps /home/javier/Documentos/Practicas planta 
> piloto/03-04/curva_secado.fig 
> whatever.ps
> 
> Probably, if TeXmacs sent:
> 
> fig2ps "/home/javier/Documentos/Practicas planta 
> piloto/03-04/curva_secado.fig" whatever.ps
> 
> or
> 
> fig2ps /home/javier/Documentos/Practicas\ planta\ 
> piloto/03-04/curva_secado.fig" whatever.ps
> 

Hi,

I don't know the programmer's team opinion, but mine is oposite of
yours.

You shurely _can_ create directories and files containing whitespaces,
but if you want to access them by using the shell you have to use
escaping or quote them - which makes no difference to the past and
"nowadays".

But you imply linux should behave like windows does, but it doesn't and
it won't ever, hopefully!

IMHO you should agree in using linux the linux way and so you shouldn't
create those directory/filenames anymore.

greetings,
Sascha