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Subject:	Re: Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)? (Was: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev
Date:	Fri, 2 Mar 2007 01:48:51 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Timothy Gould wrote:

I would certainly recommend against using spaces in filenames as Linux (and possibly MacOSX) won’t like it.

The only character either Linux or Mac OS X is allergic to is ’/’. Spaces are perfectly acceptable under both. One need only take care that any paths fed to the shell are properly escaped. Ideally anybody writing shell scripts or system() calls would handle special shell characters in their input. Admittedly this is not always the case, but such cases should be considered bad coding. (For example, Apple once released an iTunes updater that could rm the hard drive because they forgot spaces in volume names.)

Allen

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		Re: Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)? (Was: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!)
(...) Yeah I know they can be included but it's usually a safe idea not to. When setting a standard I'd be wary of allowing anything that is commonly poorly interpreted (which I suspect the escaped characters are). Tim (17 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)

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		Re: Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)? (Was: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!)
(...) I'm not sure about 98 and its ilk but I've never had any problems with long filenames in XP for l3p (and possible other command lines although I can't remember any off hand). I would certainly recommend against using spaces in filenames as (...) (17 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)

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