Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!eris!korn From: korn@eris.berkeley.edu (Peter "Arrgh" Korn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: starting file/folder-names with blank(s) - any problem with that? Message-ID: <4160@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> Date: 30 Jun 88 06:48:21 GMT References: <2824@utastro.UUCP> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu Organization: What, me organized??? Lines: 23 In <2824@utastro.UUCP>, werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) said: >if you have a hard-disk you are probably familiar with the problem: >... >... so I decided to name "permanent" folders starting with a "blank" .... >... >so what is the problem, you wonder? well, I am a bit uneasy about the fact >that it is "non-trivial" to get names to start with a blank and fear some >"evil" lurking in the dark of the OS somewhere which will bite me one-of-these >days for doing something which was "obviously" discouraged ... I would suggest trying option-space, which generates what looks to be a space, but isn't a kosher delimiter of any sort, etc. I would imagine the programs that attempt to strip off 'excess' spaces, and networked machine (connecting to Unix hosts, PC workstations, etc.) might also have problems. Other than that, I can't think of anything major that would break, but since option-space buys you basically what you want w/out risk, I'd go with that. Peter -- Peter "Arrgh" Korn korn@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU {decvax,dual,hplabs,sdcsvax,ulysses}!ucbvax!korn