Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 10:56:49 -0600 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? References: <053fc7b13bb664e3b8d0fb6707c45424@remailer.privacy.at> From: floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) Organization: __________ Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 07:56:43 -0900 Message-ID: <87ege99mic.fld@barrow.com> User-Agent: gnus 5.10.6/XEmacs 21.4.15/Linux 2.6.19 Cancel-Lock: sha1:4cM+zXWZlhuv4q9any+PorqOMlI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 45 X-Trace: sv3-TK0Phrpl1lcJNsqYPEx2NWK5r49cVmbD7g8X7zH193+QhHfq+hM3cebsLeCDxA6U3tZHEyMAfNhIVea!i4Dyk/Y61Smbz1EY0lb4A0Hgvqv7eue7yqIOTBGI4ZEwjh3ik6fBam9g5DAA8w== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2869 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:16610 The Natural Philosopher wrote: >On 26/12/15 13:54, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote: >> >> Kenny McCormack [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