Author: F. Huber
Date: 09:07:53 07/06/02
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On July 06, 2002 at 10:41:37, Daniel Clausen wrote: >On July 05, 2002 at 23:16:34, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >[snip] > >>It is impossible. There is a logpath variable you can set, but unfortunately, >>microsoft chose to make a brain-dead decision to allow spaces (blanks) in >>filenames. This breaks my parsing in crafty and I refuse to fix something that >>is so basically flawed... > >??? What is so bad about allowing blanks in filenames? I know an OS family which >allows any character except the slash and '\0' to be part of a filename and it's > a good thing. > >A confused Sargon It´s clear, that you are not a programmer! Think about the following: How should a parsing routine (for a command line string) detect, if a blank would be a separator between 2 arguments OR a character within a filename? (Of course quoting each string would be a solution for that problem!) Regards, Franz.
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