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- From: gujn@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Jeremy Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: File names with spaces; newbie fetish only ?
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 23:16:24 +0800
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- breese@monet.imada.ou.dk (Bjorn Reese) writes:
- >> > In a GUI (Workbench, Mac Finder, etc.), there's nothing special
- >> > about the space character -- it's not a delimiter -- so people use it
- >> > freely and don't notice anything inconvenient about it.
- >>Yeah, but isn't part of the point about the Amiga that YOU decide whether you
- >>want
- >> a GUI or a CLI? So, in fact, anyone who uses spaces in their filenames is
- >> RESTRICTING your FREEDOM? What about the Constitution? If my chosen PURSUIT
- >>of
- >> HAPPINESS is to USE a CLI wherever possible, should I be RESTRICTED by some
- >>WB
- >> WIMP? (Not that I particularly care about the US Constitution, you
- >>understand.
- >> Or was that the Declaration of Independence?) Anyway, winners do not use
- >>spaces
- >> in their filenames. OKAY?
- >Loosen up, Eyvind. There's no need to be this cyberpunkish. You could
- >always put a couple of "" around the filename. Talking about FREEDOM,
- >shouldn't you have the freedom to put spaces in your filenames?
-
- Geesh, I dunno! Liberalist! I agree with Eyvind! I don't want to wear
- out my poor quotes. I've been saving that keycap for when I wear out
- 'e'. Why should I have to put up with the Namby Pambies and their
- spaces?
-
- In fact, frankly I'm sick of all of these programmers restricting my
- freedom of choice... I can't think of a single paint program which lets
- me play music from it! And don't give me that ARexx excuse... I don't
- want to restrict the use of my time by programming in a new restrictive
- bougouis facist off-spring of a Neo-Nazi script lanuage!
-
- Boy the things you have to put up with on the Amiga!
-
- And while I'm at it, I just want to put some exclamation marks into
- this!!!! Which! I! Think! REALLY! makes! my point.
-
- Damn it, now I'm all steemed up let me vent a few frustrations...
-
- o Why can't I cut and paste programs between programs? Say I want
- LatticeC to run SilkWorm? I can't! Can I!? Commodore should get their
- act together.
-
- o I found a spelling mistakes ALL THORUGH the AutoDocs! My Spell
- Checker spewed on the headers! What is this crap with GFX, and EXEC,
- and CPTR and ULONG? What is ULONG, a type of Tea? And what is it doing
- in my C headers? Why can't programmers learn to put decent explanatory
- names to their variables like BASE_POINTER_TO_THE_GRAPHICS_LIBRARY?
-
- o My A500 STILL isn't running any faster, despite the new WorkBench
- releases? What sort of crap is this with Commodore? I've had it for 5
- years now and through all that period is hasn't got any faster!
- God Damn it! I'm going to have to go and upgrade if this goes on.
- Besides I'm curious to see what WB1.3 looks like.
-
- o After spilling a Keg of Bear on my A500 it stopped working! And the
- service center said the Warranty had expired! Geesh.
-
- Finally: why do people insist on naming their filenames
- AllScrunchedUp!!? What is their problem? All you have to do is put the
- Damn Things in quotes, then you can uses spaces the way God intended
- when he invented Guttenberg!
-
- Geesh. Some people.
-
- ! ! !!!!! !!
-
-
- --
- Jem. Jeremy Nelson. gujn@uniwa.uwa.edu.au :\ => :)
-