On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:25:08 -0700, Darren Dunham <ddunham AT TAOS DOT COM> 
wrote:

>>
>> I am currently using NetWorker v.7.1.1 on an HPUX 11i server, and as far
>> back as v.6.1.1 -- possibly earlier -- I have been able to use group
>> names with embedded spaces, e.g., "Group 01.15", without problem.  The
>> interesting issue I found is that after moving a different NetWorker
>> server installation from Solaris to Win2k, I had to change all the group
>> names from something like "Group 01:15" to "Group 01.15", as Windows
>> cannot deal with a colon (:) in the name.
>
>Yes, I'm pretty sure I used groups with spaces back in 5.x.
>
>Savepnpc would break in those situations.  It scans a line from the
>server directly (no real opportunity to rewrite it) and parses tokens
>with whitespace.  It did not work with group names that had spaces.

This bug in savepnpc has been fixed at current versions, can't remember
exactly when. However I must warn you that if anyone is using my
savefixpnpc script with savepnpc, the currently published version will not
work with spaces in the group name. Sorry. If this is a problem I can
supply a newer version that fixes this.

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