On 2003-09-22, 23:18 GMT, James Frye wrote: > For that matter, even in Windows the real filenames don't contain > spaces. Rather, each file has a name which follows the 8.3 rule, and > a text label that can be used instead. That label may contain spaces > (and be quite long), but the filename doesn't. Thus for instance the > "Program Files" directory is really named "PROGRA~1", and people > forced to follow Windows conventions can easily use that instead.
I think that you are here rather unfair towards newer versions of Windows. My wife has WindowsXP (now working hard to switch to Linux) and it seems that now they have true spaces in filesnames -- PROGRA~1 seems to be gone forever. Matej -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
