On 2019-07-24, Axel Berger  wrote:

> Henri Derksen wrote:
>
>> In that case the = and + signs are also forbidden?
>
> Don't know. I've attended several GIS-courses bit never found a use for
> the stuff I learnt in real life (which you can read as meaning I never
> did any menaingful work in life, real or otherwise).

FSVO "meaningful" - that's the trick.

>> Too many characters in filenames are often overkill for the reader.
>
> My mother -- a quite successful PhD career physicist -- insisted on
> using file names like "Invitation for my birthday - letter to Anni",
> "Invitation for my birthday - letter to Berta". You can well imagine,
> what you see and how helpful that is, when you list them in a directory
> window.

It gets pretty voluminous after a while, though, and encourages you to
throw far too many files into one huge tub which you'll spend a lot of
time wading through.  I'd name files something like:

    invitations/birthday/Anni.2019-07-24.txt

Let the directory structure carry some of that information, rather than
stuffing it all into the file name.

(When the Mac first came out, someone quipped that you could write a
letter to Grandma in the file name.)

>> I am forgotten when I had my last "senior moment" ;-).
>
> Ah yes. but it's fun when for all the important things -- numbers facts
> and data -- I can still keep up with the youngsters and can recalls what
> I just read in a sixty-page article. Not wanting to miss that is what
> keeps that tiny part of me young.

Yup.  It's fun - although it's somewhat marred when the youngsters look
scornfully upon such an ability, claiming that they can look it all up
on their phone.  However, revenge is sweet when their battery dies.  :-)

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