On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 12:19 PM Giovanni Mascellani <[email protected]> wrote: > > Il 06/05/20 18:40, David A. Wheeler ha scritto: > > So "\Documents and Settings" was sort-of like /home. > > This was HIDEOUS for programs and users, because > > "Documents and Settings" is absurdly long AND has spaces in it, > > which is pain for Windows shell similar to the pain of Unix shell. > > Not to mention the fact that "Documents and Settings" was localized in > non-English installations of Windows (just like "Program Files"); and of > course there was plenty of software unaware of that, so that you had > programs trying to access your files in the wrong position, or > installing programs in the wrong position.
I understand that was part of the point, to make programs that didn't check the appropriate settings break early and often, so if a program couldn't handle custom document folders with spaces and odd characters in them, the program would clearly be wrong, not the user. Shell is frequently a security disaster, since real files have spaces, quotes and other characters in them, and most Unixes permit anything but / and \0, so if shell can't handle that, you shouldn't use shell. -- The standard is written in English . If you have trouble understanding a particular section, read it again and again and again . . . Sit up straight. Eat your vegetables. Do not mumble. -- _Pascal_, ISO 7185 (1991) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metamath" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/metamath/CAMZ%3Dzj6cqGF5A0chx2nn9FQvo5Ryr0LCeEF8bQxjgZgjXkgkUw%40mail.gmail.com.
