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[Daly Jessup]

Eugene wrote:

>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.

This surprises me. I've worked in Unix at a very light level, but 
still, Unix, for the last 20 years. I still don't know any Unix 
except to kind of navigate around and copy things and stuff like 
that, but I have never run into a problem with underlines. Is this a 
particular "flavor" of Unix you are talking about?

But anyway, okay, if there's some flavor that doesn't like 
underlines, then maybe it's safer to stick with hyphens for all 
separators?

Daly
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