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Re: Bugfix/workaround for Mac directory names with spaces? [message #30229 is a reply to message #30191]

Mon, 15 April 2002 16:39

Mark Hadfield
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"James Kuyper" <kuyper@gscmail.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message
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> Mark Hadfield wrote:
>> 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.

The people who wrote Cray's DMF (Data Migration Facility) software
obviously weren't expecting any Windows users on their system. You can
check in files with spaces in their names any time you like, but you
can't get them back! Even with a GUI.

> 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. :-)

I stand corrected. I should have said that "Unix people look down
their noses at us Windows users because we're foolish enough to use
file names with spaces in the middle *and* because we don't know how
to use command-line tools".

I should warn you that I will fight to the death any attempt to turn
this thread back into a serious discussion.

--
Mark Hadfield
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz Ka puwaha et tai nei
http://katipo.niwa.co.nz/~hadfield Hoea tatou
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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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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