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To: ken in texas
For me, the problem was violation of a cardinal rule we used live with -- directory and file names do not contain spaces. So, MS came up with names like "My Documents", "Documents and Settings", and "Program Files" instead of "Documents", "Profiles", "Programs".

That's noe of my major peeves. Can't stand spaces in names. It makes them much more difficult to manipulate gracefully from scripts and the command line.

73 posted on 06/07/2012 11:21:11 AM PDT by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: zeugma

Completely understand. I had an ID10T keyboard error one day and built a directory on a Unix system with a space in the name. Had to check several Man pages to get that one fixed.


78 posted on 06/07/2012 11:45:58 AM PDT by ken in texas (I was taught to respect my elders but it keeps getting harder to find any.)
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