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Re: Jon¹s Commands in Pig Latin
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Re: Jon¹s Commands in Pig Latin


  • Subject: Re: Jon¹s Commands in Pig Latin
  • From: Steven Angier <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:56:18 +1100

On 25/2/03 7:27 AM, "John Delacour" <email@hidden> wrote:

> At 9:47 am -0700 24/2/03, Gnarlodious wrote:
>
>> I seem to be having a problem with Jon9s Commands.osax. When I drop it in
>> the Terminal, it shifts characters before the comma to the end of the
>> string.
>> So that instead of "Jon9s Commands.osax" I get "s Commands.osaxJon"
>> Any way around this? Is it a UNIX limitation?
>
> Change its name to Jon's Commands without the curly apostrophe or
> leave out the apostrophe altogether. That curly apostrophe should
> never have been there from the beginning.

That "curly apostrophe" has every right to be there! Otherwise, someone
might mistake it to mean "minutes" or "feet" rather than possession --
besides that, it looks better.

As a former desktop publisher, I give Jon extra points for this.

Steven Angier
Macscript.com
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