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Date: Tue,  7 Feb 2006 08:39:11 -0700
From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] newbie question
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On 2/7/06, Llu=EDs Batlle <viriketo@gmail.com> wrote:
> To me happened that when I created my user, due to some control-char,
> the directory created was not "/usr/myname", but "/usr/*name", where
> "*" is a character visible only on certain places. For instance, it's
> not visible in 'acme', but visible in a shell.
> Of course, I cannot remove that directory because I don't know how did
> I type that character. :)
> Check so a simple "lc /usr"
>

most likely you typed ctrl+c or some other unix sequence that is a
printable character in Plan 9...

riza: we still haven't seen any error messages. do you mind sending
those to the list?