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  8. From: Iain Alexander <ia@stryx.demon.co.uk>
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  10. Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 23:08:33 +0000
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  14. Subject: Re: Annoying things
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  24. On 29 May 98 at 22:28, Paul Abrahams wrote:
  25. > Given the variances among operating systems, perhaps there ought to be a
  26. > convention that the first space-delimited item in each line produced by
  27. > open(dirname) is the filename.
  28.  
  29. Unfortunately, space is a valid character in a filename in Win95/NT/Unix.  Of 
  30. course, you could always return a record.
  31.  
  32. -- 
  33. Iain Alexander               PGP 1024-bit key id B501A0AD
  34. ia@stryx.demon.co.uk   I.Alexander@bsn0106.wins.icl.co.uk
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