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Re: window maker


On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 06:51:58AM -0500, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alexander Gottwald 
> > [mailto:alexander.gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 6:49 AM
> > Cc: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
> > Subject: RE: window maker
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> > > Joseff Betancourt wrote:
> > > > seems cygwin doesn't like spaces ithe name.
> > > 
> > > No, it does, neither any UNIX.  Only Microsoft likes 
> > spaces, stars and 
> > > moons
> > 
> > Windows doesn't either. But most users do not use the shell 
> > very often. 
> > And then they realize, why it's bad to have spaces in directories.
> 
> I was refering to normal users.  I am aware that MSDN does not recommend
> installing Visual Studio in directories with spaces in names.

Funny, that is.  AFAIR the default install path for Visual Studio is

  "X:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio"

on english language OSes.  Space'o'mania...

Corinna

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