another 1.4 wish

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From: Kent Paul Dolan
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1989 04:34

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This one just bit me, and the folks at C-A should have known better!

Please change the name of "ram disk:" to either ram_disk: or just ram:;
changing the name to include an embedded space for 1.3 broke
working software!  For example, the Lattice C++ hello.sh demonstration
script won't work if the compiler is installed in ram:.  Instead,
a message to the effect: "parameters beyond file name ignored" comes
up, and is promptly followed by a delightful requestor to "Insert disk DISK".

It is sure nice to have icons with multi-word labels, but what I as a CLI
user think of a file system design that allows embedded spaces in names
cannot be expressed without profanity, and lots of it.

well!xanthian
Kent, the man from xanth, now just another echo from The Well.

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From: xanthian@well.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: another 1.4 wish
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Date: 20 Aug 89 04:34:48 GMT
Reply-To: xanthian@well.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
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