[bookshare-discuss] Re: spaces in file name submissions
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:30:00 -0700 (PDT)
I don't know, Ann. I have a Mac. I've been deleting
the dashes between the words in the file because I
thought,apparently erroneously, that they would cause
problems. Plus they made titles too long for the
labels. With spaces between words I've never had a
problem uploading a validation. smile
Cindy
--- Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Actually, Windows is the only platform that allows
> spaces in file
> names. Mac doesn't, Linux doesn't, and neither did
> old DOS.
> Therefore, keeping the dashes and/or underscores in
> file names makes
> sense. It's more consistant that way too. I don't
> know what kind of
> machine the repository runs on, but if it's Unix or
> Linux, then the
> file names will have to be changed unless the people
> setting them up
> want to put the names in quotation marks. It just
> makes more work for people.
>
> Once the file is open, then you can have titles with
> spaces, but seems
> to me that having dashes or underscores would be a
> better bet.
>
> Ann P.
>
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