On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, robin szemeti wrote:
> On Friday 01 February 2002 15:20, Chris Devers wrote:
>
> > /Applications/Internet\ Explorer.app/Contents/Frameworks/MS\ XML\
> > Library.cfm/Contents/Resources/Swedish.lproj/Localized.rsrc
> >
> > ...with spaces all over the place, and not just the partition name.
>
> surely the obvious way to resolve this and improve system security in several
> other ways is simply to delete the "Internet\ Explorer" sub-directory ?
Uhh, maybe. But consider:
% ls -1 /Applications | grep ' '
Address Book.app
Image Capture.app
Internet Connect.app
Internet Explorer.app
QuickTime Player.app
System Preferences.app
%
% ls -1 / | grep ' '
AppleShare PDS
Applications (Mac OS 9)
Cleanup At Startup
Desktop DB
Desktop DF
Desktop Folder
Shutdown Check
System Folder
Temporary Items
%
% ls -1 ~/Library/ | grep ' '
Application Support
FruitMenu Items
Internet Plug-Ins
Internet Search Sites
Screen Savers
%
I could do without IE, and maybe Quicktime and a couple of the others. But
I'm not getting rid of System Preferences, and I'm not going to trash my
system's nor my account's preference folders, thankyouverymuch. And that's
mostly default stuff, nevermind third party stuff of your own (the main
third party thing from that list is FruitMenu, which I didn't like and
keep meaning to delete -- the other things have to stay).
This was not meant to be a lesson in how evil MSIE is. It was a lesson in
the fact that filename spaces are here to stay, and any scripts you write
and use need to be able to handle them robustly.
--
Chris Devers
"Okay, Gene... so, -1 x -1 should equal what?" "A South American!"
[....] "no human can understand the Timecube" and Gene responded
without missing a beat "Yeah. I'm not human."
