Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/28/00:14:15
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Chris Waters wrote:
> In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 961127081248 DOT 5811A-100000 AT is>,
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> >
> >On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, David May wrote:
> >
> >> I lost the original message asking help about changing directory into
> >> the c:\Program Files directory under Windows 95 under bash.
> [...]
>
> >Since Unix generally doesn't support such directory names, I'd guess
> >`bash' fails to support them too.
>
> WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP SAYING THIS?? Unix supports file/directory names
> with spaces JUST FINE! Posting statements about OSes you aren't
> familiar with on the net is not a good idea!
[...]
that's so, but there might be some people out there with ancient versions
of UNIX that don't support this kind of stuff. I've never seen such a
beast, but SVR3.2 (which is still fairly common..) didn't support long
filenames or symlinks (I think). so it's POSSIBLE that there are some UNIX
versions out there which are that braindead..
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