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[Eugene]

>Daly Jessup <jessup at san.rr.com> wrote:
>> You're going to run into Windows limitations or Unix limitations or
>> something or other somewhere down the line, so I think it's best just
>> to avoid the issue. Everyone can tolerate underlines and hyphens.
>
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 08:11:56AM CDT, David Ledger <dledger at ivdcs.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> The only restrictions Unix has is that you can't include a '/' in a  
> filename. You can even use control characters - backspace, newline and 
> carriage-return can give interesting results when they're displayed. It's 
> still best to keep to those characters that don't have to be quoted to 
> represent them to a shell. The commonest problem is spaces because they 
> delimit arguments in lists and have to be quoted to a shell.

Many apps do poorly with filenames containing underlines.
Even though lots of people prefer to use an underline as
simple replacement for a space character, apps tend to see
the underline as another alphanumeric character and fails
to see it as a word delimiter.  By default, just about every
Unix editor does this (including vi and emacs) as well as
most GUI apps.


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Eugene
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