Re: OT: Compatibility Issues With Windows Files

2011-10-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 19:45 -0500, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Beside the space issue, you also might take care about globbing. If you e.g. cp * you won't copy hidden files of the directory, but all inside folders

Compatibility Issues With Windows Files

2011-10-04 Thread RiverWind
Hey There, When attempting to extract rar files in either Linux or Unix, the file naming protocol seems to be a very crucial issue. To wit, should a file be fraught with open spaces, many Unix and Linux utilities will not work, because it seems that MS-Windows allows for blank spaces within

Re: Compatibility Issues With Windows Files

2011-10-04 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 01:32:39PM -0400, RiverWind wrote: When attempting to extract rar files in either Linux or Unix, the file naming protocol seems to be a very crucial issue. To wit, should a file be fraught with open spaces, many Unix and Linux utilities will not work, because it seems

Re: Compatibility Issues With Windows Files

2011-10-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 04 Oct 2011, RiverWind wrote: When attempting to extract rar files in either Linux or Unix, the file naming protocol seems to be a very crucial issue. To wit, This is incorrect. should a file be fraught with open spaces, many Unix and Linux utilities will not work, because it seems

Re: Compatibility Issues With Windows Files

2011-10-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 13:34 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 01:32:39PM -0400, RiverWind wrote: When attempting to extract rar files in either Linux or Unix, the file naming protocol seems to be a very crucial issue. To wit, should a file be fraught with open spaces, many

Re: Compatibility Issues With Windows Files

2011-10-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 22:48 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 13:34 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 01:32:39PM -0400, RiverWind wrote: When attempting to extract rar files in either Linux or Unix, the file naming protocol seems to be a very crucial issue.

OT: Compatibility Issues With Windows Files

2011-10-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Beside the space issue, you also might take care about globbing. If you e.g. cp * you won't copy hidden files of the directory, but all inside folders of the directory. If you e.g. rm *, you'll delete all files, including hidden files. Regarding to the mail addresses I suspect you're using

Re: OT: Compatibility Issues With Windows Files

2011-10-04 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Beside the space issue, you also might take care about globbing. If you e.g. cp * you won't copy hidden files of the directory, but all inside folders of the directory. If you e.g. rm *, you'll delete all files,

Re: Compatibility Issues With Windows Files

2011-10-04 Thread Jason White
Dan Ritter d...@tao.merseine.nu wrote: On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 01:32:39PM -0400, RiverWind wrote: When attempting to extract rar files in either Linux or Unix, the file naming protocol seems to be a very crucial issue. To wit, should a file be fraught with open spaces, many Unix and Linux