From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
Subject: Re: GNAT on a multiboot computer
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 07:38:25 -0400
Date: 2004-10-29T07:38:25-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1099049906.95094@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5583097.2DoBlO9tyC@linux1.krischik.com>
Martin Krischik wrote:
> Well, would you install Windows anywhere else? Honestly, there are *to* many
> stupid programs around which have serious problems when Windows is anywhere
> else then C:\Windows that it never crosses my mind to use anything else
> then C:.
I still maintain that the best favor Microsoft ever did for programs
(if not programmers) was to make the default installation directory
for programs be '\Program Files' on the root drive. That finally made
everyone deal properly with blanks in file and directory names, on
pain of looking ridiculous otherwise. Blanks had been permitted in
names for a long time, both in Windows and Unix, but most programs
handled them very badly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-29 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-26 7:03 GNAT on a multiboot computer Anders Wirzenius
2004-10-26 7:31 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-10-26 7:51 ` Anders Wirzenius
2004-10-26 9:13 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-10-27 6:55 ` Anders Wirzenius
2004-10-27 8:03 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-10-28 16:25 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-10-28 17:13 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-29 6:01 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-29 8:32 ` Anders Wirzenius
2004-10-29 9:31 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-10-29 14:59 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-10-29 16:14 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-31 9:21 ` Stephane Riviere
2004-10-29 9:52 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-29 10:03 ` Anders Wirzenius
2004-10-29 12:04 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-29 11:38 ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2004-10-29 12:02 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-29 13:39 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-29 13:55 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-10-29 15:12 ` Directory Names (was: GNAT on a multiboot computer) Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-10-29 15:55 ` GNAT on a multiboot computer Björn Persson
2004-10-29 12:15 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-29 16:40 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-30 8:26 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-29 17:11 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-10-29 15:05 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-10-29 8:29 ` Anders Wirzenius
2004-10-29 17:25 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-10-30 7:42 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-11-01 9:26 ` Anders Wirzenius
2004-11-01 14:21 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-10-26 12:39 ` Stephane Riviere
2004-10-27 7:12 ` Anders Wirzenius
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