Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/04/02/15:35:09
Hannu,
Here's the full set of recommendations:
Yours:
Stick to [A-Za-z0-9-_.] characters in filenames, settings and such.
Plus:
Write all your scripts to accommodate the presence of spaces and
shell metacharacters in file names.
>This is a true pain in the ass... I wish everybody could stick to
>iso-8859-1 or its siblings.
This is unrealistic, chauvinistic and atavistic.
Randall Schulz
At 10:35 2003-04-02, you wrote:
> > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> > Of Aaron Humphrey
>
> > An easy workaround for this problem is just to wrap all of the
> > $HOME/filename conditions in double quotes, which would probably
> > be a good idea in a future release of tcsh. Once I did this in
> > complete.tcsh, tcsh started up just fine.
>
>My experience is:
> You can expect to have the exact same problem with quite a few
>scripts and other software.
>
>My advice:
> Stick to [A-Za-z0-9-_.] characters in filenames, settings and such.
>
>Sad to say, this does apply for almost any other "OS" too `:-P
>
>/Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden
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