From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8d472879e3f609e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-09 14:21:41 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3EE4F6D6.2000505@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title) References: <20619edc.0306021018.6ee4dd09@posting.google.com> <1054649187.11497@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <20619edc.0306031034.6a2f5f25@posting.google.com> <1054666439.685312@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1054735867.264510@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3EE4BC3D.3060004@cogeco.ca> <1055182881.158060@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 17:06:30 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1055192791 198.96.223.163 (Mon, 09 Jun 2003 17:06:31 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 17:06:31 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38877 Date: 2003-06-09T17:06:30-04:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > > But then, I've always hated file names that had bad > > things like blanks in them anyway. > > I think the biggest favor that Bill Gates ever did for > UNIX is to decide that programs should be installed in > a directory named "Program Files". UNIX had always > allowed blanks in filenames, but most programs failed > to handle them properly. Bill forced them to clean up > their act if they wanted to be portable. This is more an issue of "shell programming" than anything else, as most C/C++/Ada programs would have no issues with the blank(s). So I don't agree that Bill has done us any favours 8-P My issue with blanks in the file names is more on the lines of appearances (combined with mixed case). -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg