Bulgrien, Kevin wrote: > It is easy to tell everyone else what they ought to do in hind-sight. Nobody's doing that. I clearly acknowledged that *when these applications were written*, handling spaces was extremely difficult to do. I'm not denegrating the years of hard work that went into various tools, nor am I saying we should retrofit all applications.
What I object to is the attitude "spaces in file names are evil," the phrase that kicked off this (as you correctly pointed out) off-topic discussion. That attitude is outmoded, and reeks of a calcified mentality that refuses to accept change. -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com ) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal ( http://www.cuj.com/experts ) _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
