On Jul 6, 2007, at 2:19 PM, David Kerber wrote: > There's no reason to worry about quotes in a folder name; they're > illegal in > file and path names in all versions of windows,
Yes, but they're perfectly OK on Mac and Unix. There's no universal delimiter to tell a program where a pathname ends in a string containing more than just the pathname. Space is commonly used as a delimiter, so it is best to avoid it in names. > as are slashes, > back-slashes, and a few other characters that I can't recall at the > moment. > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DJ Delorie >> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 4:13 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Empty netlist file! >> >> >>> Should I have known not to put a space in my directory >> names? Is this >>> something that can be fixed in 'pcb' easily or is it not >> worth fixing? >>> A lot of the folders on my Mac and linux box have spaces in >> them and >>> programs seem to be able to find them. >> >> Most unix users know to avoid spaces in file names, but Mac >> and Windows users seem to not avoid them. It *should* be a >> simple matter of proper quoting in various places, but then >> you'd want to be able to have directory names with quotes in >> them, etc. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> geda-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
