On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 22:19:05 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote about Re: [Lazarus] [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released:
> 2010/1/2 Florian Klaempfl <[email protected]>: > > > > I think that directory names with spaces are still very uncommon on > > unix. > > > > Not on the system I maintain. :-) But in general I think you are > right, though I don't know why. Mac and Windows OS's prove it is very > successful and doable. I think that usage of the command line for creating directories is the reason. To create a directory with one or more spaces in its name requires that the space(s) be escaped with a backslash or the name be enclosed in either apostrophes or quotes, However, the possibility should always be catered for. The upshot is that I always wrap environment variables in quotes (not apostrophes!) if they represent path/file names in scripts. It is simply "best practice" in a modern context. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] ======================================================================= [email protected] (David W Noon) ======================================================================= -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
