On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:18:43 -0500, Francois Labreque wrote:

> 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.

Still not a very good port if it can't handle spaces and has to fall back 
to 8.3 filenames.

Jim

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