[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.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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