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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory
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Mark A. Flacy |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:23:55 -0500 |
>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <address@hidden> writes:
Stephen>
>>>>> "Jason" == Jason McCarty <address@hidden> writes:
Jason> Bah, space is a perfectly acceptable character in
Jason> filenames.
Stephen>
Stephen> That's simply false. Even on systems that provide for it, there
Stephen> are many contexts where things break; for example, constructs like
Stephen> "less `which baseball.bat`" will necessarily fail if
Stephen> 'baseball.bat' lives in 'C:\Program Files'. Now suppose
Stephen> 'baseball.bat' lives in 'C:\Program Files'. You and the
Stephen> shell can both Just DTRT. No?
Even better: if a space is a perfectly acceptable character in a filename,
then it is a perfectly acceptable *trailing* character of a filename. In
fact, why not have many trailing spaces? Heh.
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Tom Lord, 2003/09/24
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Neil Stevens, 2003/09/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Tom Lord, 2003/09/24
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Neil Stevens, 2003/09/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Bruce Stephens, 2003/09/24
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Neil Stevens, 2003/09/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, MJ Ray, 2003/09/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Jason McCarty, 2003/09/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory,
Mark A. Flacy <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Jason McCarty, 2003/09/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Jason McCarty, 2003/09/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Jason McCarty, 2003/09/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Tom Lord, 2003/09/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Jan Hudec, 2003/09/25
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Miles Bader, 2003/09/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Jan Hudec, 2003/09/25
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