On Wednesday, April 24, 2002, at 03:37  PM, Sverre Johan T�vik wrote:

> I've thought about it, but I've decied to take the "No dammit, this is 
> a Mac!" stance. ;-)

But that's just the thing -- not only is it not a Mac anymore (c'mon 
admit it), you're not even trying to do traditional Mac things with 
it -- you're trying to use ported Unix software.

I believe Apple has done a good job of filling in some holes, like the 
Finder for instance, but there comes a point where you need to start 
treating Mac OS X (especially when accessing Darwin thru Terminal or 
Xterm) like a Unix operating system.

If you insist, I wish you luck, but you're asking for a lot of 
headaches.  Perhaps you can come up with some kind of script* that runs 
in the background and intercepts certain commands and then escapes the 
spaces or quotes them or whatever.  Fundamentally, this is what the 
Finder does.


Erik

* you'd actually be better off writing it in something fast like C or C++


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Erik Price
Web Developer Temp
Media Lab, H.H. Brown
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