[lazarus] New Win32 Installer Now Available!!!

[Jeffrey A. Wormsley]

On 7/17/99, at 2:56 PM, michael at tfdec1.fys.kuleuven.ac.be wrote: 

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>On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Cliff Baeseman wrote:
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>> I think bill did that to cause the command line dudes problems thus
forcing
>> us towards windows.
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>You can be sure he did: On Unix, spaces in directories are allowed, 
>but one simply doesn't do it, since unix is/was command-line oriented.
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>If you know how 'long file names' are implemented on FAT systems you'll
>understand that this MUST have been a marketing decision, technically 
>it's the biggest shambles I've ever seen.

Well, if not a marketing decision, then at least a dirty hack.  The only
"good" thing about it is that is didn't break backwards compatability for
more than 25% of apps ;^)

Jeff.