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Re: Off Topic - Computer Question

To: CHRIS KOTTING <ckotting@wideopenwest.com>
Subject: Re: Off Topic - Computer Question
From: Simon Matthews <simon.d.matthews@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:17:12 -0800
On 11/30/05, CHRIS KOTTING <ckotting@wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>
> That's because the Web is built around real operating systems.  (Last I
> looked at the statistics, something like 80% of the web pages in existence
> are served by open source software, usually Apache running on some flavor
> of
> Linux or Unix.)


Chris,

Interesting point, but the most common Linux filesystem (ext2/ext3) can
certainly  work with filenames that contain spaces. It is just that they are
difficult to use, so are not nomally used. They can also break scripts that
are usually written assuming no spaces in the filenames.

Simon




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