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From: Tom Duff td@pix...
Subject: [9fans] allowing space (ASCII 0x20) in file names
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 08:16:08 -0700

> An alternative (taken by a friend of mine in his modified version of
> the other rc) is to make the shell glob more carefully. So the file
> called "Hello World" globbed as Hello' 'World.

Uhh, the real rc always had this property.  If the ersatz product failed
to do this, the perpetrator wasn't paying attention.