Re: Bug#99807: diff doesn't handle filenames with spaces (fwd)

[Miles Bader]

Hans-Bernhard Broeker <address@hidden> writes:
> Try telling _that_ to all the guys out there using ports of diff or
> patch on Microsoft-ish systems, where backslash is a directory
> separator.

I think they've already been sufficiently scarred by existing (ported)
applications that treat backslash as an escape, that they can deal.  In
any case, ease-of-use on unix-like systems is far more important (from
GNU's point of view) than ease-of-use on MS-written ones.

-Miles
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