G'Day Emanuel (and others): No experience with this specifically, but I've learnt from bitter experience that spaces in filenames are a Bad Idea(tm), period. I don't care what application you're using, as soon as you put spaces in filenames you open up a whole can of worms when you're trying to administer your filesystem, due to the fact that spaces break many unix-type scripts. Whether or not this affects you personally doesn't really matter - the person following you or cleaning up your filesystem might care.
By "unix-type" scripts, I am including cygwin, which only just makes my life in a windows world bearable. If I can't have a 'for' loop on a command line I am lost! Cheers, Matthew van de Werken Electronics Engineer CSIRO Exploration & Mining - Gravity Group 1 Technology Court - Pullenvale - Qld - 4069 ph: (07) 3327 4685 fax: (07) 3327 4455 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Emanuel Zimmermann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 14 March 2002 5:18 PM > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: [PEDA] spaces in filenames (was: spaces in footprint names) > > > It seems that not only spaces in footprints can cause trouble > but in filenames > also. Yesterday I generated my cam-files from a pcb-file that > I had saved with > "save as..." from the file menu. This by default changes the > filename to "copy > of xyz.pcb". The Gerbers generated from this file seem to be > corrupted somehow. > At least when imported into Camtastic it shows part of the > filename as string in > the middle of rectangular pads. When changing the > pcb-filename to "xyz.pcb" and > running the same cam generator on the same data these strings > within Camtastic > have disappeared. > I'm not quiet sure if its Protels or Camtastics problem. Does > anybody of you out > there have more experience with this "feauture", especially > does anybody know if > this impacts PCB production? > > Thanx, > Emanuel > > > > -- > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > MPL AG www.mpl.ch > Emanuel Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Manager R&D Phone: +41 (0)56 483 34 34 > Taefernstrasse 20 Fax: +41 (0)56 493 30 20 > > CH-5405 Daettwil > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
