From: | Kolbjørn Barmen |
Date: | 5 Jun 2001 at 16:31:08 |
Subject: | [D5] Re: ArcHandlerEx bug? |
On 5 Jun 2001, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Dave Clarke said,
>
> > Once upon a time, 04-Jun-01 10:57:39, Jonathan Hart spoke thus about
> > '[D5] ArcHandlerEx bug?':
>
> >>Noticed that the latest ArcHandlerEx doesn't show the contents of dirs if
> >>they have spaces- such as "MyArchive:This Drawer" as opposed to
> >>"This_Drawer".
>
> > <QUOTE>
> > Anyone that is stupid enough to use spaces and other such questionable
> > characters in the naming of files and/or directories against the specific
> > recommendation of the AmigaDOS manual needs their head read and should not
> > expect programs to perform miracles on same.
> > <UNQUOTE>
>
> When a filename contains spaces, you're supposed to quote the filename,
> not some dubious piece of text of doubtful parentage :)
>
> Besides, the space is a legal character in a filename. Apparently, the
> space was put in "Ram Disk:" specifically to help catch programs that
> failed to handle spaces correctly.
Indeed, shame on any programmer that doesnt check his/her program for this :)
Upthrough the years of bug reporting on various programs, this must be the
one that I've reported most. Probably because of all my network drives..
"blurb on blarb:" etc.
-- kolla