diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index 84a9a9d717..deac2388b8 100644
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -6809,3 +6809,13 @@ Charlie 18 Aug 2008
     
     clientgui/
         AsyncRPC.cpp
+
+David  19 Aug 2008
+    - lib: added string_substitute() function
+    - lib: changed boinc_copy() to replace " " with "\ " in its args
+        (to allow pathnames containing spaces).
+        From Tolu Aina
+
+    lib/
+        filesys.C
+        str_util.C,h
diff --git a/doc/boinc_news.php b/doc/boinc_news.php
index 2258bfb310..21b851abff 100644
--- a/doc/boinc_news.php
+++ b/doc/boinc_news.php
@@ -33,12 +33,6 @@ array("July 9, 2008",
     a PHP script to display BOINC stats on a webpage,
     and store or retrieve these stats to a mySQL database."
 ),
-array("June 26, 2008",
-    "Congratulations and thanks to volunteer
-    <a href=\"http://boinc.netsoft-online.com/e107_plugins/boinc/get_user.php?cpid=4b03581a7c1802a7bd62649720327b04&amp;html=1\">Banshee</a> from
-    <a href=\"http://www.boinc-af.org/\">L'Alliance Francophone</a>,
-    who has recently contributed over 10 TeraFLOPS to several projects."
-),
 array("June 16, 2008",
     "<a href=logo/logo_3d>3-D versions of the BOINC logo</a>
     are now available; thanks to John from Ireland for creating these."
diff --git a/lib/filesys.C b/lib/filesys.C
index 464f2eecce..0e48c0c92b 100644
--- a/lib/filesys.C
+++ b/lib/filesys.C
@@ -492,13 +492,15 @@ int boinc_copy(const char* orig, const char* newf) {
     }
     return 0;
 #elif defined(__EMX__)
-    char cmd[256];
+    char cmd[1024], cmd_esc[1024];
     sprintf(cmd, "copy %s %s", orig, newf);
-    return system(cmd);
+    string_substitute(cmd, cmd_esc, sizeof(cmd_esc), " ", "\\ ");
+    return system(cmd_esc);
 #else
-    char cmd[256];
+    char cmd[1024], cmd_esc[1024];
     sprintf(cmd, "cp %s %s", orig, newf);
-    return system(cmd);
+    string_substitute(cmd, cmd_esc, sizeof(cmd_esc), " ", "\\ ");
+    return system(cmd_esc);
 #endif
 }
 
diff --git a/lib/str_util.C b/lib/str_util.C
index 1407eded5b..d4fc8b3dab 100644
--- a/lib/str_util.C
+++ b/lib/str_util.C
@@ -843,4 +843,37 @@ char* windows_format_error_string(
 }
 #endif
 
+// string substitution:
+// haystack is the input string
+// out is the output buffer
+// out_len is the length of the output buffer
+// needle is string to search for within the haystack
+// target is string to replace with
+//
+int string_substitute(
+    const char* haystack, char* out, int out_len,
+    const char* needle, const char* target
+) {
+    unsigned int i=0, j=0;
+    int needle_len = strlen(needle);
+    int target_len = strlen(target);
+    int retval = 0;
+
+    while (haystack[i]) {
+        if (j+target_len >= out_len-1) {
+            retval = ERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW;
+            break;
+        }
+        if (!strncmp(&haystack[i], needle, needle_len)){
+            strcpy(out+j, target);
+            i += strlen(needle);
+            j += strlen(target);
+        } else {
+            out[j++] = haystack[i++];
+        }
+    }
+    out[j] = 0;
+    return retval;
+}
+
 const char *BOINC_RCSID_ab90e1e = "$Id$";
diff --git a/lib/str_util.h b/lib/str_util.h
index 22b9a4c763..2e4ceb0f96 100644
--- a/lib/str_util.h
+++ b/lib/str_util.h
@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ inline void downcase_string(std::string& w) {
     }
 }
 
+extern int string_substitute(
+    const char* haystack, char* out, int out_len,
+    const char* needle, const char* target
+);
+
 // convert UNIX time to MySQL timestamp (yyyymmddhhmmss)
 //
 extern void mysql_timestamp(double, char*);