Kernel Hacks & Weird Filenames

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

In article <24 at csnz.nz>, paul at csnz.nz (Paul Gillingwater) writes:
> Does that mean that a naive user can make a file with a <SPACE>
> in the name?   e.g.   "John Doe" or "Job Cost" or other equally
> "intuitively correct" but WRONG names...:-)

Yes you can make such file names (I often do), and what's wrong with them?
	cat >"Job Cost" <<EOF
	...
	EOF
	ed "Job Cost"
	...
	lpr Job\ Cost
Works fine.  Why should a shell's lexical conventions dictate what sort of
file names I can use in window-based tools?  (The program I use most often
on a Mac has a space in its name...)