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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Sunday 29 Nov 2009 15:48 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz pulled this Usenet boner:
>
>> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Sunday 29 Nov 2009 13:24 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz pulled this Usenet boner:
>>>
>>> UNIX long had the ability to put spaces (and many other non-alphanumeric
>>> characters) in filenames. But the UNIX "convention" was for short,
>>> lowercase, spaceless names.
>>>
>>> I personally blame Mac :-D
>>
>> But Windows actually uses names like "My Documents" and "Program Files".
>> It shows you that it's OK to use space. Same with Microsoft Office...
>
> Well, my take is that, although it makes the names more difficult to deal
> with, let "normal" people do what they want.
>
>> It's not so hard to use dashes. File description fits in metadata and
>> Linux has programs to handle that. KDE4 is very good at it!
>
> Spaces in file-names drive you nuts when writing bash scripts!
Also when you upload%20to%20the%20world%20wide%20wibble^H^H^H
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