Re: [ARSCLIST] Underscore in file names

[Don Cox <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/09/06, David Breneman wrote:
> --- 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.

Yes, that is what you have to do in the Amiga OS, if you are using the
command line interface. This OS does not require a 3-letter extension
(although some programs, coded presumably by MSDOS users, do).
File types are identified by inspection of the actual headers in the
files.

Regards
-- 
Don Cox
doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx