[OS X TeX] epstopdf

Adam Maxwell amaxwell at mac.com
Wed Sep 28 15:38:34 EDT 2005


 
On Wednesday, September 28, 2005, at 12:05PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

>
>On Sep 28, 2005, at 10:15 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>>
>> I just tried to print/save as PDF from OmniWeb, and it happily  
>> allowed me to name the file with a date; Excel also allowed me to  
>> save a file with a date in the name.  I don't have time to try Word  
>> ATM.  I use enough Unix stuff to habitually avoid using slashes in  
>> filenames, but that's an anachronism that GUI users shouldn't have  
>> to worry about.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>
>
>Howdy,
>
>What do the file names look like in Terminal?

As someone else mentioned, they are represented as colons:

-rw-r--r--   1 amaxwell  admin  254115 Sep 28 12:32 09:28:2005.pdf

If you only work with GUI applications, this is no problem; if you switch back and forth between GUI and shell, it's annoying.

Adam

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