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| Subject | Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? |
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| From | floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) |
| Organization | __________ |
| Date | 2015-12-26 07:56 -0900 |
| Message-ID | <87ege99mic.fld@barrow.com> (permalink) |
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote: >On 26/12/15 13:54, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote: >> >> Kenny McCormack <gaze...@shell.xmission.com> [KM]: >> KM> The funny thing about this is that this is anything but a MS >> KM> problem. >> KM> I'm no MS apologist, but the cold hard fact is that Windows does >> KM> better than Unix on this issue, in at least two ways: >> >> It's not unix itself that has a problem with filenames >> containing arbirtrary characters (except / and NUL of course), >> it's the shell (and even that is by necessity: certain >> (unescaped) characters initiate certain shell actions). >> >> The newer generation of unix users, who have never worked in terminal >> mode, have no problem using just about any weird filename. Their >> GUI-based file manager and other applications can deal with them just >> fine. >> >Its a shame slashes aren't allowed so that >'diary-27/12/15.txt' isn't a file.. Who cares. Use 'diary-27-12-15.txt'. >> So it's not a unix vs. DOS issue. It's a shell vs. DOS issue. >> >Dunno. I couldn't rename a file to: > >'Pirates of the Carribean:The Curse of the Black Pearl.mp4' Why not, looks easy. I literally cut and pasted the above line into a command line, hit return and then ran "ls -l Pirate*' to see what was there: $>'Pirates of the Carribean:The Curse of the Black Pearl.mp4' $ls -l Pirates*mp4 -rw-r--r-- 1 floyd users 0 Dec 26 07:52 Pirates of the Carribean:The Curse of the Black Pearl.mp4 >I think its too long maybe Operator error. -- Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/ Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@apaflo.com
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Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at> - 2015-12-26 14:54 +0100
Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-26 14:54 +0000
Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2015-12-26 07:56 -0900
Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-26 17:29 +0000
Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-01-03 05:27 +0000
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