From: schmidtd@my-deja.com   
      
   On 8/13/23 5:41 PM, D Finnigan wrote:   
   [...]   
   > A lot of what he have today is self-inflicted damage from choice of   
   > command-line user interface. The classic example being spaces in filenames   
   > when using a CLI with argument switches. The user interface could have been   
   > designed a lot differently.   
      
   Oh, absolutely.  And in some cases, it was.  Like Macintosh with   
   resource and data forks.  HPFS with Extended Attributes.  "Keep the   
   metadata with the file," they said.  "It will be fun," they said.  Your   
   actual fun may vary.   
      
   We eventually reach a point where data needs to be exchanged on things   
   beyond a gooey screen.  Really messy filenames (and metadata stashing   
   schemes we don't all agree on) don't help.   
      
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