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- From: alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: File names with spaces; newbie fetish only ?
- Message-ID: <alien.02q3@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 06:34:26 GMT
- References: <1993Jan17.034536.22995@philips.oz.au>
- Organization: Muppet Labs
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1993Jan17.034536.22995@philips.oz.au> gduncan@philips.oz.au (Gary Duncan) writes:
- >... or do they have some use ?
- >
- >I've just been playing around with some PD stuff and renaming
- >some files like "THIS IS MY PROGRAM " to say IdoThis, and wondered
- >if the originator ever got tired of esacaping the file name
- >with quotes. I did.
- >
- >I gather that spacious file names are not uncommon in the
- >Wonderful world of Messy-Dog.
- >
- >A substantial reward may be offered to anyone who can think
- >of a good reason :)
-
- Well, the definition of "good" varies from person to person ... some of us
- think that the advantage of having filenames that are clearly readable in
- plain English outweighs the minor inconvenience of occasionally having to
- type quote marks. But it's a matter of opinion. Just because you *can* do it
- doesn't mean you *have* to do it; if you don't like spaces in file names,
- don't use spaces in file names! Your complaints about having to rename some
- people's files from "This is a file" to "ThisIsAFile" are balanced by my
- complaints about having to rename other people's files from "ThisIsAFile"
- to "This is a file" :-)
-
- BTW, although Windoze and (I think) the Mac allow spaces in file names,
- NearMiss-DOS doesn't.
-
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