Actually, IIRC you can turn the 8.3 (storing the short name) support off
in NTFS. You should never have to use a short name in order to get
things to work on any modern NT-based system.
From a users perspective, we're certainly being nice to our users if we
notice and handle when we need to quote appropriate paths. Make things
easy to use, our customers will love us even more.
Bill
> From: Sander Striker [mailto:striker@apache.org]
>
> > From: cmpilato@collab.net [mailto:cmpilato@collab.net]
> > Sent: 16 April 2002 18:36
>
> > "Sander Striker" <striker@apache.org> writes:
> >
> > > > I certainly think requiring Windows users to escape paths to
their
> > > > editors is much worse than the status quo...
> > >
> > > Let me rephrase: people with spaces in their path to their editor
> > > should escape them. That will give us an easy way out. The
> > > majority of the people having to do that will be on windows,
> > > since a common install path is "C:\Program Files\<whatever>".
> > > However, if your editor is in your path, as simple
> > > EDITOR="notepad.exe" (or whatever you like) will do.
> >
> > Does WinNT have the 8.3 short-name thing going on? I mean, can
> > all Windows users do the C:\PROGRA~1\<whatever>" thing in those
cases?
>
> AFAIK, all versions of NT support that.
>
> Sander
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