Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 09:57:44 07/06/02
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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
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