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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] blanks in file names 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jul 2002 17:21:08 EDT."
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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Date: Mon,  8 Jul 2002 19:27:13 -0400
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> BTW - If we change the system in a fundamental way once and for all,
> we'll have a system (and a new set of conventions) that won't have to
> be changed for another 50 years, with any luck.  Somebody's going to
> want to encode full pathnames within nodes at some point in the future,
> and our decision to disallow that will force people to invent roundabout
> ways of doing so.

IBM did that with their match-mode mainframe operating system.  Low and
behold, it didn't change for 50 years.

	- Dan C.