Have to add a thing here..

in Sweden, and also is allowed by windoze 95... but, POV went off on those too...

//Spider

Johannes Hubert wrote:
> 
> [NOTE: Yvo posted his message in "povray.bugreports". I posted my reply
> here, because it is really off-topic for that group, and I didn't want to
> clutter the bug-reports with it...]
> 
> smellenbergh wrote in message
> <1dl### [at] dialup22leuvenskynetbe>...
> >Looks like file names are causing problems on Macintosh, and perhaps
> >other platforms too (all platforms allowing spaces as first character in
> >file names).
> >
> >We are aware that this is more an inconvenience than realy a bug but we
> >might have a solution.
> >
> >For example if your input file is ' scene.pov' (notice the space in
> >front) POV-Ray is unable to find that file because while parsing the
> >option 'Input_File= scene.pov', the space is thrown away.
> >
> >Why not not change the option parser in a way that options can be
> >enclosed like this:
> >Input_File=" scene.pov" and Version="3.1" ,......
> >
> >Or perhaps allowing it only for library paths, input files, output
> >files, ..... all options relating to file names.
> >If an option is enclosed, the parser should take *all* characters,
> >including spaces.
> >
> >Would it be hard to implement?
> >
> >Yvo Smellenbergh
> >
> 
> I don't know about this "bug" and it's fix, I am just curious:
> 
> Regardless of if the OS allows a leading space or not: Why would anyone in
> his right mind would want to use a leading space in a filename? This looks
> to me like inviting problems in more areas than only POV-ray - even if the
> OS handles the filenames correctly, humans will *very* easily make mistakes
> because it will be so easy to miss the leading space.
> Seems just as bad a practice to me as using *several* leading spaces
> (imagine, with a proportional font, the fun of "guessing" how many spaces
> you have to type to replicate a filename! ;-) or even worse: one or several
> *trailing* spaces (and no ".*" fileextension of course, which could spoil
> the fun of guessing the number of trailing spaces!)
> 
> Well, as said, I am curious. After all, there may be valid reasons... Any
> suggestions?
> 
> Johannes.

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