Re: ADTPro on Ubuntu 8.10. Something strange is happening here. Unable to open.

[thepenciler09@gmail.com]

On Mar 30, 11:37 am, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On Mar 30, 11:35 am, thepencile...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > The problem was a space in a subdirectory. In particular ~/
> > Applications/Java Apps/
>
> [personal opinion]While it is true that you should never, ever have
> spaces in directory or file names, [/personal opinion] the adtpro.sh
> script should allow you to do just that.  I tested with spaces both on
> OSX and SuSE and they were happy to oblige.  I'm still not sure why
> it's not working correctly on your Ubuntu distro.

Well, it is working now that I've gotten rid of the App part of the
folder name. Maybe Java just uses the method of "seeing" directories
that the host OS uses by default. I'm just guessing, in SuSE and Mac
OS X spaces are probably seen, in Ubuntu (which is probably closer to
bare metal Linux than SuSE) spaces can't be seen unless individual
software takes advantage of something to see them. I know this is true
with most CLI apps I use. Spaces mess them up if they look for files.
I remember using an app with a full GUI that would ignore directories
that had spaces in their names, as if they were hidden files (I think
it was ZSNES or Parallels for Linux or something). After a while you
get used to which apps do that and which don't and configure directory
routes accordingly.