On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:18:15 +0100 Ian Malone wrote: > Yes, in general hours of pain here, especially if you work with people > who do lots of shell scripting and another group of people who use > Windows lots. Yea, did anyone notice that Unix/Linux allowed spaces in filenames for years and years before Microsoft invented NTFS, and no one had these problems because no one was foolish enough to actually use spaces in filenames. Then Microsoft was so proud of itself that they said, "Look everyboy, see what I can do! I'm gonna put spaces in everything!". It has been going downhill since then :-). It also broke a lot of stuff even in Windows. I remember finding all kinds of API documents that claimed an argument was a "filename", but in reality it was some kind of thing fed to a command somewhere that needed the so-called filename to be quoted if it had spaces in it (a minor fact that took years to make it to the documentation for everything, and may still be missing in some Windows APIs). -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
