[Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory

[Neil Stevens]

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On Wednesday September 24, 2003 1:41 pm, Tom Lord wrote:
>     > From: MJ Ray <address@hidden>
>     >
>     > So that's for bash.  tcsh treats {arch} as if it said arch,
>     > AFAICT. rc uses braces to group commands.
>
> In general: fight back against shells screwing up the namespace of
> files by "taking over" various characters.
>
> Baroque shell mechanisms can sometimes do a good job of making the
> special interpretation of characters very context specific.  That's
> fine.
>
> But there's lots of reasons to want to have all kinds of "funky file
> names" -- the file system is, after all, a form of database.   File
> names are a primary key for that database.   Limiting the space of
> reasonably usable keys is lame.

So when will tla stop being lame and start supporting spaces in file names? 
:-)

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Neil Stevens - address@hidden

"Now and in the future, we will support our troops" -- George Walker Bush
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