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From: jaltman@columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
Subject: Re: K-95 and filenames containing spaces
Date: 28 Apr 2000 18:25:37 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Message-ID: <8ecl31$s2$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <3909D16B.86841374@value.net>,
Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> wrote:
: I try to avoid spaces in names for exactly the reason that names with
: spaces are hard to parse correctly. In those few cases where windows
: seems to coerce me into using names with spaces (e.g. the "Program
: Files" directory), I use the MS-DOS name instead. This would normally
: be the first 6 non-blank characters of the name followed by "~1" (or
: "~2" etc. in case of conflicts). E.g.
:
: send c:/mydocu~1/somefi~1.doc
:
: Note that forward slashes can be used as the windows program interface
: supports them even though things like command.com don't.
The next update to K95 will always set variables such as
\v(exedir) \v(startupdir) \v(inidir)
to the 8.3 format names. It will also have a working
SET WIN95 8.3-FILENAME ON
command to return all file names in 8.3 format.
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
The Kermit Project * Columbia University
612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025
http://www.kermit-project.org/k95.html * kermit-support@kermit-project.org