[NCLUG] FreeBSD versus Linux?

[P. Scott DeVos]

jbass at dmsd.com wrote:
> 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.

Even on Windows computers, any command line work involving filenames 
with a space in them is a pain.  Spaces serve excellently as the 
separator character, they have no place in filenames.  I would love to 
have a talk with the dope that thought up the "documents and settings" 
directory in Windows!  I'll take /home, /docs and /etc any day over that 
mess.


> John
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P. Scott DeVos