* demerphq <demer...@gmail.com> [2007-08-14 17:30]: > By doing it themselves there is no danger of having an argument > list too long because of trying to operate on an overly long > directory.
By "doing it themselves" you force everyone to parse the command line on their own, which means quoting conventions and how to deal with spaces in filenames can vary not per shell, but per invoked program. If that's not hateful, I don't know what is. Thankfully most programs today use the same MSFT C RTL so the conventions don't vary as much as they could, but it was a right pain in the bottocks during the DOS era and continued until WinXP managed to excise the last large pockets of Win9x installs. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
