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Originally Posted by theducks
not to nit, to much 
Nowhere does that say that file names can not have spaces.
What it says is : If a filename with spaces is used as a shell command or argument, the special treatment is required.
This is hardly different from windows: "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre" must receive special treatment (inside quotes) when used in a Batch file or as an argument. |
Yes that is not different from the command line in Windows but the gui does not require special treatment and is standard in Windows but extra addon in Unix/Linux. The quotes, by the way, are mostly added automatically in command line completion in Windows when used as an argument. If you look at my original post all I said was that a space required special handling not that it was illegal. If you go back to Unix in the 70's as I do then you will find that Unix in those days did not have any required files or directories that used a space and it was discouraged normal usage. Some early file systems didn't even support it. It wasn't until Windows forced the issue with the Program Files name that it became accepted. Ok, back to the orignal program, still in progress.
Dale