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Re: Bugfix/workaround for Mac directory names with spaces? [message #30230 is a reply to message #30191]

Mon, 15 April 2002 15:48

James Kuyper
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Mark Hadfield wrote:

> "Struan Gray" <struan.gray@sljus.lu.se> wrote in message
> news:a9einm$3a4$1@news.lth.se...
>
>> I recently started putting a space at the start of the names of
>> folders containing my most recent data. This forces them to appear
>> at the top of listings when using, for example, IDL's
>> DIALOG_PICKFILE.
>
>
> Unix people look down their noses at us Windows users because we're
> foolish enough to use file names with spaces in the middle. But only a
> Mac user would put a space at the beginning!

It's perfectly legal to have spaces in Unix filenames, even at the start
of filenames. They can cause a number of very annoying problems when
working with command line utilities, but then the same could be said of
Windows. As long as you stick with GUI interfaces, the spaces are pretty
much irrelevant.

Of course, power Unix users know they have a better list of command line
utilities at their disposal than Windows users, so they're tempted to
leave their GUI's more often. :-)

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		Bugfix/workaround for Mac directory names with spaces? By: Struan Gray on Thu, 11 April 2002 00:48
		Re: Bugfix/workaround for Mac directory names with spaces? By: Mark Hadfield on Mon, 15 April 2002 16:39
		Re: Bugfix/workaround for Mac directory names with spaces? By: James Kuyper on Mon, 15 April 2002 15:48
		Re: Bugfix/workaround for Mac directory names with spaces? By: Mark Hadfield on Mon, 15 April 2002 14:50
		Re: Bugfix/workaround for Mac directory names with spaces? By: Struan Gray on Mon, 15 April 2002 05:57

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