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
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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.

! ! !!!!!  !! 


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Jem.  Jeremy Nelson.  gujn@uniwa.uwa.edu.au       :\  =>  :)