Re: Stupid quoting...

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 14, 2007, 01:12 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706140211070.4059@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <4670948B.7070407@midwinter.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Steven Grimm wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > The recommended way is not using spaces to begin with. I mean, does "David"
> > contain spaces? People seem not to see the problem, and fail to blame
> > Microsoft for all the damage they have done, introducing that stupid,
> > stupid concept of filenames containing spaces, and _enforcing_ it.
> >   
> 
> To be fair, Microsoft did not invent the concept of filenames with spaces.

I didn't say that, did I?

They _forced_ the use onto the world. That's what I was complaining about.

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> Even UNIX has, I believe, always allowed them, though you risked running 
> into buggy scripts misbehaving if you used them. And really, filenames 
> with spaces are only a nuisance in a text-based command line scripting 
> environment, and only then because someone early on decided to use space 
> rather than some other metacharacter as the only available delimiter 
> between command arguments in scripts.

Okay, Steven Grimm. How do you think _I_ can tell that Steven is your name from looking at your _full_ name "Steven Grimm"? Huh?

Exactly. I split at the space.

Ciao, Dscho