From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:12:47 GMT Subject: Re: Stupid quoting... Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4670948B.7070407@midwinter.com> Hi, On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Steven Grimm wrote: > 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. > 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