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From: David Hogan dhog@plan9.cs.su.oz.au
Subject: remote device access
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 02:54:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19950429065422.HeMK2CCcCq_Qtz2oyMzq5EqiIkFzmP6F6lLEmCUzZaY@z> (raw)

>>i prefer the notation to be distinct.  when what's going on is
>>fundamentally nasty, it is polite to say so; hence #c.
>
>My concern is that it pretends to be in file system space, while it
>really isn't (you can't ls/cp/rm/etc. it).

I dunno, ls '#c' works for me!

>E.g. in Plan9, I can't have a file
>called #c (there goes emacs ... hm ... :-).

Well, actually you can, but you have to be careful how you reference it.  ie,
echo foo >'./#c'






             reply	other threads:[~1995-04-29  6:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-04-29  6:54 David [this message]
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1995-04-29  6:51 David
1995-04-29  6:09 serge
1995-04-28 21:39 serge
1995-04-28 16:04 rob
1995-04-28  8:26 forsyth
1995-04-28  6:52 Boyd
1995-04-28  0:18 serge
1995-04-27  8:29 forsyth

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