Erik Christiansen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20.09.13 19:18, Trent W. Buck wrote: > > Erik Christiansen writes: > > > > > ยน And my software teams were blessed with *nix servers all that time > > > too, though many members used the other OS on their machines. > > > > VMS? >
I hope so, and preferably not a system running that kernel which some VMS developers later contributed to. > The couple of curiously emotional posts on this thread, do seem to > reveal a lack of scripting (and possibly even command line) experience, > because having to quote "filenames with real space characters in them", > in order to avoid the CLI barfing, tends to clarify that they are alien. > The CLI cannot deal with them, and it is only our protective > work-arounds which allow them to be tunnelled in a script. That's why I keep such file names off my machines, and I don't bother with the work-arounds in local scripts because the presence of any file name containing spaces on any of my machines is a problem to be fixed by appropriate renaming. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
