re: Spacebar or shift_when naming new files
Friday, November 4, 2005 at 5:05 pm
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Posted by normanw
(1284 messages posted)
The safest practice is never to use spaces in filenames.
Although Windows allows this sloppy practice, many
other systems do not, which can cause problems if you
are exchanging files, email attachments, etc. Use
underlines instead.
Remember, too, the only safe characters to use in
filenames are letters of the alphabet, numerals and
underlines, and filenames may only begin with a
letter of the alphabet or an underline.
Also, it is not very good practice to use capital letters
since most systems, unlike Windows, are case-sensitive
They will therefore regard, for example, Thisfile.txt
and thisfile.txt as two totally different files. Always
using lowercase only completely avoids such ambiguity.
On Friday, November 4, 2005 at 4:41 pm, Robert wrote:
>Is it better to enter_ rather than when naming a file.
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