Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/29/18:08:58
In article <Pine DOT SGI DOT 3 DOT 93 DOT 961128130135 DOT 2645B-100000 AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>,
Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph> wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Chris Waters wrote:
>> 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).
I've used Unix off and on for nearly two decades. I've never seen a
version which didn't support spaces or even control characters in
filenames. Anyway, this is getting off-topic; my original comment was a
side-bar.
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