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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Exporting objects with invalid default filenames

From: "Luis EG Ontanon" <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:30:05 +0200
BTW url-encoding filenames would be a solution for this kind of
isues... guess what urlencoding was thought for exactly that!

filename%20with%20spaces.ext


On 10/24/07, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Luis EG Ontanon wrote:
> > On 10/24/07, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Since it's primarily Windows that should have this problem (AFAICR most
> >> *NIXs allow anything other than "/" in a file name) it should be easy
> >> enough to find a list of prohibited chars.
> >
> > in *NIX filenames  with spaces  are particularly tedious... I
> > personally would forbid spaces in filenames en-toto as they tend to
> > make scripts fail...
>
> Haha, a friend of mine used to keep a program around whose file name was
> " " (just a space) to confound *NIX newbies.  (I can't remember if the
> program did anything interesting or not.)
>
> More seriously, though, those working inside some desktop environment
> (like GNOME) don't have to worry about what's in file names since the
> environment takes care of making sure the file names are handled
> appropriately.
>
> (Your preference does make an argument to have the list of
> chars-banned-from-file-names configurable though in thinking more about
> it now I'm not sure where such a preference would be.)
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