[Fwd: Re: cp brings unknown file type]

[sparkes]

Steven Fredette wrote:
> 
> 
>    I got in the habit of using the underscore for spaces in naming way 
> back in the 90's when I was working on a site hosted from an Apache 
> server.

I do the same from C programming in the 90's so it seems a common geek 
theme.  In BASH I escape them with a slash.  Back in the early days of 
Linux it was harder moving files from Linux to windows as 3.11 was stuck 
in DOS 8.3 filename hell.  I used to do uni work on Linux at home and 
SunOS at uni and my friends had DOS 6.2 and windows 3.11.  Still they 
didn't have to carry massive disksets home when they wanted to install a 
new package.  Oh for broadband and apt back then ;-)

> I've never used a quote in a URI before, does this quoting work 
> for web file naming too? I'm having a hard time seeing this as being 
> cross platform, especially in older browsers.

all browsers (well all HTTP 1 and 1.1 browsers) will use %20 as a space 
in an URL.  Apache certainly has no problems forfilling requests for 
these files but ISS used to do some strange things to funny URLS a 
couple of years back and caused me no end of trouble when a client moved 
hosts from a sane one to a bloody mad one.

You can also use mod_rewrite to alter any file to any URL (or should 
this be URI, bloody standards, one is never enough ;-) ) so you can use 
filenames people like on the local intranet and URL freindly names on 
the internet.

> 
> Cordially,
> Steven Fredette

sparkes

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