POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Swell. : Re: Swell. Server Time
6 Sep 2024 03:15:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Swell.  
From: clipka
Date: 10 Nov 2009 11:26:19
Message: <4af9942b@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 schrieb:

> I've seen quite a few programs (mostly stuff ported from Unix, oddly 
> enough) which don't like spaces in pathnames.
> 
> Wanna take a guess what the customary place to install programs is? 
> Yeah, it's C:\Program Files.

Which is why native Windows programs have long since become a lot more 
sane in this respect.

On unix, where even now it is still quite common to do stuff in some 
command line shell, it is pretty uncommon to put blanks in filenames, 
because it would be a hassle to even "cd" there.


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