[time-nuts] Back slash in URLs

Bob Camp lists at rtty.us
Fri Nov 19 17:13:28 UTC 2010


Hi

And then sometimes a \ means "continued on the next line". Maybe in some
files it means "count what's after this as a comment".

Hauling stuff back and forth between OS's is a pain. If you use a Linux box
for timing data collection, and do the processing on a Windows machine -
things can get break in a lot of odd ways. 

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Hal Murray
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 2:57 AM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Back slash in URLs

> Both slashes work fine for me!

There are two areas that I know of that lead to horrible confusion between 
Windows and Unix systems and users.  Both involve strange characters in file

names.  One is \, the other is space.

Unix/Linux systems use \ for magic in command line parsers and scripts.
That 
is \* means a literal * rather than all the files in the right context.  (So

does "*".)


The other problem is spaces.  If you are using a GUI, spaces aren't much of
a 
problem.  But if you cut/paste, they don't work unless you are sharp enough 
to notice the problem and put "s around them or some other workaround.

It's much simpler to use _ or - rather than space if you have a multi word
filename.


-- 
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