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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished
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Matthieu Moy |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:51:36 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden writes:
>> Would any other rare character be better for this purpose? Some
>> candidates are ':', ';', '?', '%', '#', '^', '*'. All characters
>> probably have one or another problem, but IMHO the problem with
>> backslash is inherently higher. One more thing to think about is this
>> proprietary OS uses backslash as the directory delimiter.
>
> If '\' is the escape character and the tla uses it on some interface
> seen by other tools, the tools need to be aware of escaping.
If 'a' is the escape character and the tla uses it on some interface
seen by other tools, the tools need *not* to be aware of escaping.
If 'b' is the escape character and the tla uses it on some interface
seen by other tools, the tools need *not* to be aware of escaping.
...
We could also imagine using uuencode or something similar.
> Do u see any difference?
Yes ;-)
[ but my solution is to avoid spaces in filenames, so I don't mind
actually ;-) ]
--
Matthieu
- [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, chth, 2004/03/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, Mikhael Goikhman, 2004/03/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, Tom Lord, 2004/03/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, chth, 2004/03/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, Jan Hudec, 2004/03/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, Tom Lord, 2004/03/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, Jan Hudec, 2004/03/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/03/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, Jan Hudec, 2004/03/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, John Meacham, 2004/03/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, Jan Hudec, 2004/03/19