gEDA-user: Empty netlist file!

[DJ Delorie]

> There's no reason to worry about quotes in a folder name; they're
> illegal in file and path names in all versions of windows, as are
> slashes, back-slashes, and a few other characters that I can't
> recall at the moment.

Ah, but they're legal under unix!  The only characters that aren't
valid file/directory names are the slash character and the NUL
character.  I've been told that there's ways to get a slash character
into a file name, too (not just as a directory separator).