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29 Jul 2024 02:24:23 EDT (-0400)
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From: Francois Labreque
Date: 13 Dec 2012 21:18:47
Message: <50ca8c87@news.povray.org>
Le 2012-12-13 17:20, Jim Henderson a écrit :
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:38:57 -0500, Francois Labreque wrote:
>
>> That, or they're poorly done *nix ports where you have to run some sort
>> of "Unix shell for Windows" to run all the shell scripts that the
>> application uses.
>
> would have to be a pretty poor port of the Unix shell to not support long
> filenames.
>
> Jim
>
It's not the long file names per se, it's the spaces in the directory 
names that causes the issue.

And you can't blame the port to windows, when it also requires that 
there be no space in the application installation directory for Solaris, 
Linux and HP-UX installations.  Relying on the short file name is just a 
means to get around the fact that there's a space in "Program Files" in 
Windows, and you can't change that.



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