On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:35:55PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2003-09-22, 23:18 GMT, James Frye wrote:
> > For that matter, even in Windows the real filenames don't contain
> > spaces. Rather, each file has a name which follows the 8.3 rule, and
> > a text label that can be used instead. That label may contain spaces
> > (and be quite long), but the filename doesn't. Thus for instance the
> > "Program Files" directory is really named "PROGRA~1", and people
> > forced to follow Windows conventions can easily use that instead.
>
> I think that you are here rather unfair towards newer versions of
> Windows. My wife has WindowsXP (now working hard to switch to Linux) and
> it seems that now they have true spaces in filesnames -- PROGRA~1 seems
> to be gone forever.
>
Really? I am running Windows XP and Progra~1 *does* work. Have you
tried it?
C:\cygwin\home\Kayvan>dir c:\progra~1\tcl
dir c:\progra~1\tcl
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 501B-4DAE
Directory of c:\progra~1\tcl
12/19/2001 01:55 AM <DIR> .
12/19/2001 01:55 AM <DIR> ..
12/19/2001 01:54 AM <DIR> bin
12/19/2001 01:54 AM <DIR> doc
12/19/2001 01:54 AM <DIR> include
12/19/2001 01:55 AM 15,048 INSTALL.LOG
12/19/2001 01:54 AM <DIR> lib
08/08/2000 02:59 PM 2,272 license.txt
08/08/2000 02:59 PM 5,613 Readme.txt
06/21/1999 11:21 AM 245,616 UNWISE.EXE
4 File(s) 268,549 bytes
6 Dir(s) 14,768,001,024 bytes free
C:\cygwin\home\Kayvan>
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Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89)
http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | "crown of her husband" | Robin Gregory (2/28/92)
