On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 15:57:31 +1000 Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > > > This was in a configure script. > > Wow. It would never have even occurred to me to not use quotes. Well it work on Linux so I went with it :-). In hindsight I'm a little surprised myself. > Err, yeah sorry. That was a bit left field. > > I know that > OS-X marries somehow the old MacOS creator/type information that > is kept in different 'forks' of the same file. Funnily enough, I've been trying to get my head around that recently. I see zero benefit from doing it this way and a whole pile of added headaches. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
