Author: F. Huber
Date: 12:16:30 07/06/02
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On July 06, 2002 at 12:57:44, Daniel Clausen wrote: >On July 06, 2002 at 12:07:53, F. Huber wrote: > >>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! > >Please don't let my company know. Otherwise I might lose my job. ;) > > >>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!) > >I'm well aware of this "problem" and you already mentioned the solution to it. >Of course when Crafty get its arguments on on big line and everything is >unquoted, there's nothing he can do. But it's not the space in the filename to >blame then, it's the caller to blame, that he didn't quote the stuff properly. > >M$ did a lot of brain-dead decisions in the past (and they no doubt will in the >future. Palladium anyone? :) but allowing spaces in filenames doesn't belong to >them. Every OS _I_ know allows that. (Mac, all Unix systems, Windows) The fact >that many programmers ignore that and for example write shell-scripts under Unix >which break when working on files containing spaces doesn't automatically mean >having spaces in filenames is a bad thing. (typically 'advanced' people don't do >that, but many 'normal' people do that. and I can't/won't blame them for that) > >Maybe I misunderstood Bob or quoted him completely out of context though. > >Sargon Hi Daniel, sorry, excuse my words - they were absolutely not intended to be unfriendly! But your (maybe too short) answer to Bob´s message actually sounded to me, as if you didn´t understand what (and why) he really wanted to say with it. So I only tried to explain - I hope, I didn´t offend you. As for the problem with your company, I think the chance is not very big, that they read these postings - and I would NEVER inform them :-)) Best regards to Switzerland from your Austrian neighbour, Franz.
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