Re: Jon¹s Commands in Pig Latin
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:
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At 9:47 am -0700 24/2/03, Gnarlodious wrote:
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> I seem to be having a problem with Jon9s Commands.osax. When I drop it in
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> the Terminal, it shifts characters before the comma to the end of the
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> string.
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> So that instead of "Jon9s Commands.osax" I get "s Commands.osaxJon"
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> Any way around this? Is it a UNIX limitation?
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Change its name to Jon's Commands without the curly apostrophe or
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leave out the apostrophe altogether. That curly apostrophe should
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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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