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Subject: Re: Using Crafty on WindowsXP

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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