On Saturday 09 Oct 2010 4:06:37 am Eliot Miranda wrote:
>     Bert is very probably right.  If you're suing bourne/bash then look up
> the difference between $*, "$*", $@ and "$@".  To preserve spaces you need
> to use $@/"$@" (depending on context" not $*.  Also within your script you
> can use IFS to prevent space being a separator.
‌$@ always uses space as word separator while $* uses the first letter of IFS 
variable. Otherwise they are the same.‌ Smalltalk uses spaces for separator so 
$@ will do.

Subbu