> "Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> | On 6/12/07, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> |
> | > ... Also, do you how to pass file names to Windows
> | > utilities in a way that avoid damage due to command line parsing
> | > -- Unix shell has more qouting rules which allow you to pass any
> | > legal charater as part of filename (I plan to add a simple encoder
> | > which quotes all characters that need quoting). I hope that
> | > Windows has equivalent functionality.
> | >
> |
> | As far as I know there is no method in Windows that allows to pass
> | all legal characters via the command line. The common method to
> | pass command line arguments with minimal interference from the
> | shell is to enclose them in "quotation marks". To pass a quotation
> | mark itself requires double "" but quotation marks are ignored if used
> | as part of a file name. The character \ (path separator) and * (wildcard)
> | cannot be used in a file name even when occurring between "...".
> | Comma , space semicolon ; and some other punctuation characters
> | in file names is ok if appearing between " ... ", etc. etc.
> |
> | It is hard to find a good reference but easy to find complaints. :-)
> | Try:
> |
> | http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/winpsh/cmdline_std.mspx
>
> Indeed.
>
> My personal opinion is that funny characters (yes, I consider
> whitespace in pathnames as funny) in pathnames are Evil. We should
> not spend too much resource trying to support Evil beyond reasonable.
> People who like spaces in pathnames should just learn leaving with
> that restriction in Axiom. Given the choice between Evil and useful
> functionality in Axiom, I don't hesitate one second.
>
I think that using funny characters in pathnames is stupid. But
programs that mishandle such names are clearly broken.
--
Waldek Hebisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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