[Xastir] Fun with XP usernames- solved!

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Jason Winningham wrote:

> So is the problem cygwin, or is the problem that xastir is choking on a
> pathname that has a space in it?
>
> If it's the latter, it seems to me a bug report is in order.  Spaces
> are just characters; the only character that should really matter in a
> path is "/" (OK, maybe ".", but only if it comes first...).

It's really a Unix thing.  Spaces are evil.  They are used as
delimiters on the command-line.  They have to be specially quoted in
order to make the shell ignore them, which is a pain in the rear in
practice.

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