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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Gassee joins the fray
Date: 23 Jan 2015 03:04:25 GMT
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On 2015-01-23, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> Okay, so one time? In band camp? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> was all, like:
>> In article <slrnmc00i2.gdt.g.kreme@kreme.eternal-september.org>,
>>  Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>
>>> But it was a long time ago and details are fuzzy. I do remember thinking
>>> at the time, "Who the hell would have ever named their drives that way?"
>
>> That's surely not the point.
>
> It's nto THE point, but it is *A* point.
>
>> Personally, I have never nor have ever considered naming my drives
>> with spaces in them,
>
> Again, spaces in drive names was not the issue that caused the bug to
> surface.

The root cause was a shell command using unquoted paths containing
spaces.

> And unless you had one named "Mohammed" and the "Mohammed Sucks" drive
> was the boot drive, you would not have encountered the iTunes 2.0 upgrade
> issue.

Yep.

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