Comments on: VFP: File and folders via indirection

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:03:00 +0000

Curiously, I’ve always intentionally used folders with embedded spaces — both because I find them more readable and also because that means that the problem will always have to be solved on my machine first anyway.

By: Randy Jean

Randy Jean — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:22:00 +0000

I was a convert from macro expansion years ago. Initially it was due to speed but also because of needing to escape periods in file names, etc. Using the parenthesis also executes faster. I’m amazed at how many programmers still default to using macro expansion. Old habits I guess.

By: Christof Wollenhaupt

Christof Wollenhaupt — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:03:00 +0000

I find a lot of them, even among developer tools. Usually I spot them right away since at least on my XP machines my projects are all stored in C:\Documents and Settings\name\My Documents\Projects. There’s three spaces in there. With this structure I also run into the maximum path length of 260 when copying some of the sample provided by Microsoft into the projects folder provided by… Microsoft. No wonder on Vista it’s now C:\users\name\documents…