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Article #10003Filenames, ARGH!!
From: Craig Scott Lennox
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1990 15:19
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1990 15:19
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I'm trying to write a csh for a Mac SE. Say what you like, but there are some times when you need to type commands rather than mouse them. However, I'm stonewalled atthe beginning: How can you write an effective command interpreter when ANY character -- spaces, tabs, hyphens, underscores, colons, etc. can be in your filenames. Furthermore, with the limit on filename length being 31-characters, that could make for some mighty hairy pathnames. Are there any accepted or innovative ideas out there to overcome this hassle? Any information would be greatly appreciated (and given credit for!). -- | Craig Scott Lennox -- Stratus Computer - Marlborough, MA | | Dyslexic Existentialism: "Is there a dog?" | | Find out what I really said -- send for your free decoder ring! |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!bu.edu!bu-cs!xylogics!cloud9!lectroid!paris!lennox From: lennox@paris.sw.stratus.com (Craig Scott Lennox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Filenames, ARGH!! Summary: Problems with writing a csh Keywords: filenames, csh, spam Message-ID: <591@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> Date: 19 Jan 90 15:19:18 GMT Sender: usenet@lectroid.sw.stratus.com Reply-To: lennox@paris.sw.stratus.com (Craig Scott Lennox) Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering. Lines: 18