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From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Kernel Hacks & Weird Filenames
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Date: 11 May 88 00:17:09 GMT
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> Does that mean that a naive user can make a file with a 
> in the name?

Yup.

> e.g.   "John Doe" or "Job Cost" or other equally "intuitively correct" but
> WRONG names...:-)

Yup.  As I presume you mean to imply, those names would be considered quite
valid by some users.  Many such users won't necessarily be using the
traditional UNIX shells, so it might not be at all inconvenient to use names
containing spaces.