Germany declares Microsoft's FAT patent not valid.

[jasen]

It's (Windoze) also too stupid to complain about filenames with embedded
blanks. I'm finding that a serious issue while I'm trying to organize
a collection of about 9,000 files. (about 11GB.) =:-O

ms-dos has supported filenames containing blanks (ASCII 32) for as long as
I can remember (atleast back as far as 3.3) command-line support for them
is a different matter.

what tools are you using?


Bye.
Jasen

 

[Rich Grise]

ms-dos has supported filenames containing blanks (ASCII 32) for as long as
I can remember (atleast back as far as 3.3) command-line support for them
is a different matter.

what tools are you using?

Slackware 11.0

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Joel Kolstad]

It's (Windoze) also too stupid to complain about filenames with embedded
Why do you have a problem with filenames containing embedded spaces? I can
understand back in the '70s/'80s how they could've been rather annoying, but
certainly they've existed in various operating systems for many decades now,
and they're not at all difficult for a modern piece of software (including
shells) to deal with... (Heck, the ancient Commodore PET floppy drives had
them back in the late '70s, and that was already a "personal" computer!)

If you use 4NT, I have seen a free batch file that makes filenames all
uppercase and replaces spaces with underscores; if that sort of pre-historic
computer look appeals to you, it might be worth checking out.

---Joel Kolstad

 

[Rich Grise]

Why do you have a problem with filenames containing embedded spaces? I can
understand back in the '70s/'80s how they could've been rather annoying, but
certainly they've existed in various operating systems for many decades now,
and they're not at all difficult for a modern piece of software (including
shells) to deal with... (Heck, the ancient Commodore PET floppy drives had
them back in the late '70s, and that was already a "personal" computer!)

If you use 4NT, I have seen a free batch file that makes filenames all
uppercase and replaces spaces with underscores; if that sort of pre-historic
computer look appeals to you, it might be worth checking out.

Thanks, but I'm working on a script that leaves the case alone, and
changes one or more blanks in a row to a single underscore. I'm just
having somewhat of a time renaming files from inside the loop, but
I'll get it eventually - I'll be asking in comp.unix.shell; they
should have an answer for me.

Meanwhile, I'm learning a lot!

Thanks!
Rich