On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, John Levon wrote:
> This is not how things work. "PROGRA~1" is most definitely NOT the
> "real filename".
Well, that gets us into philosophical discussions about the nature of
reality :-) What I know ('cause I just tried it) is that if I open a
basic command-line prompt window on Win 2K, and do a "dir \progra~1", I
get expected output from the dir command. If instead I do "dir \Program
Files", I get a bunch of "File Not Found" messages. To me that says that
the "progra~1" version of the filename is at a more basic level in the OS.
In any case, the 8.3 version works, and so Lyx (or other programs) can
easily be ported just by substituting '\' for '/', and telling the Windows
user which version of the names to use. Constructive laziness :-)
As for whether there's a "no spaces in filenames" rule in *nix, it's like
the rule about driving on a particular side of the road. It's true that
you can, with some effort, create names that have spaces (or other
non-printing characters), just as you can ignore the signs and drive up
the exit ramp onto the freeway. Either action is probably going to make
for an interesting day, though.
James
