Re: [Lynx-dev] how to associate file types with applications?

[Walter Ian Kaye]

At 06:40p -0500 03/12/2005, Thomas Dickey didst inscribe upon an 
electronic papyrus:

> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
>
> > Going back to Unix <g>, what if there are spaces in the application pathname?
> > Do they get encoded/escaped? If so, what method is used?
>
> Lynx attempts to quote tokens when building a shell command.
> The given example would be a problem since lynx cannot tell if
>
>         /program files/bin/foo
>
> is intended to be two tokens or one.

So, um, what is the answer? How to reference an app name containing spaces?