8 Jan
2021
8 Jan
'21
12:42 p.m.
On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 12:01:26PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
This file's name was given by a formal process. The file is one of hundreds that must survive decades. One doesn't willy-nilly rename things without inviting chaos.
But isn't it a problem to have a filename that is illegal on windows and mac os and probably many others? That seems to invite not surviving potentially into the future.
A tool should behave in the expected way. In this case, I have had to modify my expectation (and respect for) evince.
That's for sure. Badly documented and badly behaved. -- Len Sorensen