Re: gEDA-user: Empty netlist file!

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 6, 2007, at 2:19 PM, David Kerber wrote:

> There's no reason to worry about quotes in a folder name; they're  
> illegal in
> file and path names in all versions of windows,

Yes, but they're perfectly OK on Mac and Unix. There's no universal  
delimiter to tell a program where a pathname ends in a string  
containing more than just the pathname. Space is commonly used as a  
delimiter, so it is best to avoid it in names.

> as are slashes,
> back-slashes, and a few other characters that I can't recall at the  
> moment.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DJ Delorie
>> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 4:13 PM
>> To: geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Empty netlist file!
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>>
>>> Should I have known not to put a space in my directory
>> names? Is this
>>> something that can be fixed in 'pcb' easily or is it not
>> worth fixing?
>>> A lot of the folders on my Mac and linux box have spaces in
>> them and
>>> programs seem to be able to find them.
>>
>> Most unix users know to avoid spaces in file names, but Mac
>> and Windows users seem to not avoid them.  It *should* be a
>> simple matter of proper quoting in various places, but then
>> you'd want to be able to have directory names with quotes in
>> them, etc.
>>
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John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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