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(...) (URL) Here's> the output on XP. ROSCO (17 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Well, I made a small program in Delphi 7 that lists the command line parameters, drag and dropped a file named "LongFileName.dat" in it, and here is the surprising result: (URL) (Running on a Win98SE PC.) So I think long file names still has (...) (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!)
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(...) 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() (...) (17 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) With tongue slightly in cheek, I believe it is time to accept the technological advancements of 1984. If DOS wasn't obsolete the day it was written, it definitely was within a few years. DOS filenames tend to be inscrutable, and there just (...) (17 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) First of all, I agree that we should avoid using space in filenames for all official stuff. It's just too problematic. However, that's not a reason to forbid the use of long filenames in general. The thing is, any program that doesn't support (...) (17 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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