Le 2012-12-14 13:42, Jim Henderson a écrit :
> 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
>

One could say that it's a true-to-the-orignal port of a not-very-good 
application if the Unix orignal can't handle spaces either. ;)

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