~/My Computer/.directory

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004, Collins Richey wrote:
>On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:18:21 -0500
>"David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> wrote:
...
>> What a horrendously bad idea/habit putting spaces in file and
>> directory names.  UNIX will give you fits about that.  Change the
>> space to an underscore, hyphen, or just remove it completely.  Your
>> problem will go away.  This is not Windoze, it's Linux and works as
>> UNIX has been designed to work since long before M$ even existed. 
>> STOP USING SPACES IN FILE/DIRECTORY NAMES!
>> 
>> M$ Windoze:  we teach bad habits so you can't change operating systems
>> easily.
>> 
>
>Yeah, me too. I was going to make a snide remark: look on any WinLoser
>computer <g> But David's reply was much more elegant.

Linux isn't completely free from blank idiocy.  Here's the output of
``locate " " '' from a SuSE 9.0 Professional system:

/opt/gnome/share/themes/Beautiful and Free
/opt/gnome/share/themes/Beautiful and Free/metacity-1
/opt/gnome/share/themes/Beautiful and Free/metacity-1/button_base.png
/opt/gnome/share/themes/Beautiful and Free/metacity-1/button_close_active.png
/opt/gnome/share/themes/Beautiful and Free/metacity-1/button_close_inactive.png
/opt/gnome/share/themes/Beautiful and Free/metacity-1/button_close_pressed.png
/opt/gnome/share/themes/Beautiful and Free/metacity-1/button_maximize_active.png
/opt/gnome/share/themes/Beautiful and Free/metacity-1/button_maximize_inactive.png
/opt/gnome/share/themes/Beautiful and Free/metacity-1/button_maximize_pressed.png
/opt/gnome/share/themes/Beautiful and Free/metacity-1/button_minimize_active.png
/opt/gnome/share/themes/Beautiful and Free/metacity-1/button_minimize_inactive.png
/opt/gnome/share/themes/Beautiful and Free/metacity-1/button_minimize_pressed.png
/opt/gnome/share/themes/Beautiful and Free/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml
/opt/kde3/share/config/colors/40 Colors
/usr/share/doc/packages/lirc/remotes/morgan's daytona
/usr/share/doc/packages/lirc/remotes/morgan's daytona/T15
/usr/share/ghostscript/7.07/doc/Omni/Change Log
/usr/share/ghostscript/7.07/doc/Omni/Color Adjustment
/usr/share/ghostscript/7.07/doc/Omni/How To Create A Device
/usr/share/ghostscript/7.07/doc/Omni/Known Problems
/usr/share/ghostscript/7.07/doc/Omni/Omni Rasterization Specification
/usr/share/ghostscript/7.07/doc/Omni/PDC Specification
/usr/share/ghostscript/7.07/doc/Omni/Pluggable Blitter
/usr/share/ghostscript/7.07/doc/Omni/RPM Readme
/usr/share/ghostscript/7.07/doc/Omni/Reporting Bugs
/usr/src/kernel-modules/atmelwlandriver/src/Pcmcia_Pci/ .lastbuild

Bill
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