well lets try it out
[105-112:~] boxley% mkdir foo
[105-112:~] boxley% cd foo
[105-112:~/foo] boxley% cat /dev/null > foo at bar
cat: at: No such file or directory
cat: bar: No such file or directory
[105-112:~/foo] boxley% ls
foo
[105-112:~/foo] boxley%
[105-112:~/foo] boxley% cat /dev/null >"foo at bar"
[105-112:~/foo] boxley% ls
foo foo at bar
[105-112:~/foo] boxley% ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 boxley staff 0 Dec 27 13:00 foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 boxley staff 0 Dec 27 13:02 foo at bar
when the nix os tries to untar the files with embedded spaces it cannot write the file to the disk because the OS does not recognise embedded spaces unless quoted which is a problem to untar unless you specifically know what file you need. That is why using a snmp notation in file names fooAtBar is a useful practice.
thanx,
bill
