Subj : spaces in filenames
To   : apam
From : Oli
Date : Wed Jan 19 2022 10:58 am

apam wrote (2022-01-16):

 -=>> On Sat Jan 15 19:00:00 2022, Oli wrote to All <=-

 >> How does Binki handle spaces in filenames? Does it escape and
 >> unescape " " and "\x20"? I couldn't find anything in the sources.

 a> It doesn't. I'm testing a change now to escape / unescape spaces and
 a> other reserved characters. The format is apparently \20 not \x20 for binkp

It is \x for all reserved characters and \x20 for space (see FTS-1026). The \20 was an error in a previous FTSC  proposal (FSP-1011).

AFAIK Argus, Irex and Mystic are using or have used "\".

binkd always used \x. mbcico, qico, Taurus/Radius, BinkIt and others use \x too.

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