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Tomasz Rola wrote:
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> On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 
>>into underscores when used as filenames. Don't ask me why (well, the space 
>>part is obvious, since real spaces tend to be a pain to use on the command 
>>line, but don't ask me why people tend to conver a dash to an underscore).
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> 
> Maybe because they think dash looks ugly and can sometimes lead to
> invoking programs with bad options?
Only if it begins with a dash...