From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 02:54:22 -0400
From: David Hogan dhog@plan9.cs.su.oz.au
Subject: remote device access
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>>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'