spaces at ends of filenames or directory names on Win32

[Christos Georgiou]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:49:31 -0600, rumours say that Larry Bates
<larry.bates at websafe.com> might have written:

>IMHO leading and/or trailing spaces in filenames is asking for
>incompatibilities with cross-platform file access.  Much like
>using single-quote in filenames which are perfectly legal in
>DOS/Windows, but Linux doesn't like much.

Just for those who don't know, in general *nix operating systems (and the
various *nix file systems) disallow only '\0' and '/' in filenames.  The '/'
because obviously is the path separator, and '\0' because it's the
end-of-string marker in C.

When Larry said "Linux", he actually meant the shell he uses.
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