| From: | Duane McDonnell |
| Date: | 23 Dec 99 at 03:33:51 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Version String, CPU detection |
From: Duane McDonnell <dmcdonnell@primus.com.au>
>From: Allan Odgaard <Duff@DIKU.DK>
>On 22-Dec-99, Duane McDonnell wrote:
>>> "$VER: PieceMaker 2.3 (07.09.99) � 1998-99 Allan Odgaard"
>> I'm pretty sure the day and month should have any leading 0's stripped
>> and the string should also be LF terminated. It's also worth pointing
>I asked a friend to check the style guide, and none of this is mentioned.
Check that snippet Andrew just posted (hmm, I knew I read it
*somewhere* :-). If you look at the include files you'll notice
leading 0's are always stripped too.
>> out that the program name should be one word, so use underscores
>> instead of spaces if need be.
>How about simply using a non-breaking-space? (alt-space, code 160, 0xA0) Or
>maybe collapse the spaces, if the nbsp is too 'weird' ;-)
Or always give your programs one word names ;-) The alt-space
is a good tip though, thanks for that.