Re: Bainter notch filter, anyone?

Winfield Hill wrote:
>
> Fred Abse wrote...
> >
> > Spaces in filenames are a *bad* idea.
>
> Microsoft led the way with that bad idea.
>
> The first time I encountered a filename (directory_name) with
> spaces was over 10 years ago in Microsoft's Windows 95 beta,
> where all the programs were loaded into a file directory (folder)
> called "Program Files" instead of simply calling it "Programs".
> I stared at this for a long time, trying understand their decision.
> Finally I concluded it was a mandatory "in-your-face" introduction
> to their new long filename capability.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> - Win


Spaces in file names is nothing new.

The OS software that Microsoft wrote for other non-IBM based
computers allowed spaces in filenames. back to at least the early '80s.
Microsoft wrote the Basic interpreter for the old Commodore PET line,
VIC-20, C-64 and C-128 computers that also allowed spaces BEFORE the
file name as well, and allowed 16 characters total so you could put a
program on a disk that would stay at the top of the directory when it
was sorted by simply prefacing it with a space.

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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
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