Mail Archives: opendos/2001/05/31/08:08:23
X-Comment-To: Travis Siegel
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31-νΑΚ-2001 03:11 tsiegel AT softcon DOT com (Travis Siegel) wrote to
opendos AT delorie DOT com:
TS> I don't have a problem with any of this proposal or the info contained in
TS> it. In fact, I think it would be a very good idea to create some sort of
TS> standard and get to it before microsoft does so that it won't foul it up
TS> afterwords.
If M$ decises to "standardize" something, even if this already
standardized by others, no one prevents them from this. :(
TS> However, in the long filename section you suggest using
TS> something similar to 4dos descript.ion files. Woouldn't something
TS> resembling how unix handles long file names be more appropriate here? I
Unix based not at FAT file system.
TS> mean it's been around for years already, everyone knows it works, and
TS> there'd be plenty of support for it already. Other than that, I
TS> wholeheartedly applaud your initiave (except I'd really like to see
TS> anything with an ascii value less than 33 be illegal in filenames)
I think, space in filename is not very bad thing - but OS should allow
to use quotes to shield from its splitting function.
TS> However, I don't think I'll garner much support on this front, so treat it
TS> as only a personal wishlist item. :)
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