> 
> No, it wasn't.  Punctuation characters other than a dot (.) should *always*
> be used with caution in pathnames, and avoided wherever possible.  There are
> plenty of OS's (not just "traditional" Unix) that may or may not have POSIX
> or Unix compatibility, but disallow various different punctuation characters
> on a filesystem altogether.

Indeed anything that is passed through 'make' had better not have spaces
(or tabs) in any filenames. Even some of the M$ build tools don't like that!

Other values to avoid:
 ':' in directory names - difficult to put in $PATH
 '\n' - wrecks a lot of stuff
 '\\' - just to annoy windows users
 '/' (on windows) to annoy unix users (and programs that accept it as a
     filename separator)
 '/' when calling VOP_CREATE() directly

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk