Hi, On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Steven Grimm wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > The recommended way is not using spaces to begin with. I mean, does "David" > > contain spaces? People seem not to see the problem, and fail to blame > > Microsoft for all the damage they have done, introducing that stupid, > > stupid concept of filenames containing spaces, and _enforcing_ it. > > > > To be fair, Microsoft did not invent the concept of filenames with spaces. I didn't say that, did I? They _forced_ the use onto the world. That's what I was complaining about. > Even UNIX has, I believe, always allowed them, though you risked running > into buggy scripts misbehaving if you used them. And really, filenames > with spaces are only a nuisance in a text-based command line scripting > environment, and only then because someone early on decided to use space > rather than some other metacharacter as the only available delimiter > between command arguments in scripts. Okay, Steven Grimm. How do you think _I_ can tell that Steven is your name from looking at your _full_ name "Steven Grimm"? Huh? Exactly. I split at the space. Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
