[GTALUG] odd evince command behaviour
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Fri Jan 8 15:42:58 EST 2021
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.
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Len Sorensen
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