[David Dyer-Bennet] > as I said in my initial post, I first discovered this on Windows > under Cygwin. Avoiding "c:/Program Files" and "c:/Documents and > Settings/david.dyer-bennet/My Documents" involves contortions and > leaves you putting things in unusual places.
Well, or calling them C:/PROGRA~1 and C:/DOCUME~1. Not necessarily wise, since these days I hear it's possible to disable short name generation in NTFS, but there you have it. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/