Re: [luv-talk] Is Windows really this awful? - luv-talk

31 May 2012

On Wed, 30 May 2012, Daniel Pittman wrote:

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  On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Tony Langdon
&lt;vk3jed(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
  At 10:12 PM 5/30/2012, Russell Coker wrote:

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Core-Launcher.aspx

Do they seriously mangle paths that badly? 
 ROFL!  I haven't tested this one myself, I've always been careful to
 quote any path with spaces in it in Windows. 
 ...and, of course, Windows doesn't do quote processing or command line
 parsing in any particular standard way, so each process gets the
 entire single string with the rest of the command line on it.

 Which makes for hilarity as every developer implements command line
 splitting and quoting themselves. 
I read the source to the borland delphi circa version 1.0 libraries, and
they split out strings separated by spaces, and then joined them back
together with a single space if there were quotes involved.

So "Program  Files/MooCow" got converted to "Program Files/MooCow".
Awesome job, dudes!

-- 
Tim Connors