On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 08:12:00AM -0600, Graeme Humphries wrote: > stan wrote: > > Right, spaces in filenames is a disease. > Why? > > The vector for spreading this disease has largely been microsloth, and all > > of the uneducated users they > > brought to the party. > > > Why does spaces in names = a lack of education? Perhaps the clearest way > to label a file includes a space? > > Not a reason _not_ to handle them corectly, though, just an editorial > > comment. > > > IMO there's nothing intrinsically wrong with any character in a file > name, as long as it makes sense with regards to your naming conventions. > The only difficulty it causes is if your tools can't handle that > character very well. These days, *even* on UNIX, most tools should > handle spaces in filenames just fine.
GUI tools perhaps. I think command line tools will always have the difficulty of "what character or sequence is the separator between arguments". -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
