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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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