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		jfb on Aug 28, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Humor: Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie Who Used t... The problem with paths with spaces on Unix is not the API, it's the shell.

bodyfour on Aug 28, 2013 [–]

True, but how is the windows shell better in that regard?

jfb on Aug 28, 2013 | [–]

Probably isn't, but then, there isn't the cultural deadweight of gigaloc of shell scripts making up an essential stratum on Windows, right?

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