[NCLUG] FreeBSD versus Linux?

[jbass at dmsd.com]

bob at proulx.com (Bob Proulx) writes:
> Personally I wish people would use the more explicit .tar.gz suffix
> since it is completely self-documentating.  Thankfully I have not seen
> anyone try to shorting the .tar.bz2 endings to something that fits on
> a MSDOS floppy disk so perhaps this will all eventually age away.

And maybe someday UNIX/Linux people will adapt to readable filenames
with spaces too ... as have been on MacOS and MSWin machines for years.

That many tools which still require shell command line parsing in scripts
fail makes the practice annoying at best.

John