On 07/09/2009 11:00, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 07 Sep 2009, at 11:44, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Jonas Maebe wrote:
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Spaces and quotes are vetoed as a general rule :)
That's fine as a general rule, but at least on Mac OS X specifically
it's no problem. I think more documents and applications (other than
the command line unix ones) than not have a space in their name on that
platform.
In Linux, and I guess other unixish OSes like the Mac, it's quite
possible to have spaces or punctuation in file names. That doesn't mean
they're a good idea. 99.something% of the time you're probably OK,
especially if you stay in a GUI. Command line scripts sometimes have
problems because they won't have a name quoted properly, or you want to
use some file but you have to slip several \ chars in, to escape
"special" chars. Or, if we're not just talking about PDFs, you start
using chars that the FAT filesystem does not support, like <, and then
try copying MP3s with those chars to a cheapo MP3 player and wonder why
it doesn't work. Hehe.
Frank
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