Re: [9fans] acme question + diffs for kfs, fs and plumbing

[Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 06:43:17PM +0900, arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote:
> 
> >For Unix, there doesn't seem to be a natural replacement for space.
> >We could use the suggestion of using URL-style encoding, where %
> >becomes reserved and _any_ special character can be represented as
> >%XX. In fact, is there _any_ service for a foreign filesystem that
> >would defeat such a scheme?
> URL-style encoding is powerfull enough and that is internet  
> standard.
> I believe no system defeats such a scheme.
> I don't know why Plan9 rejects to accept this scheme,
> if we must (probably we must) deal with outside system,
> 
There are only three characters from a foreign system that need
translation: "%", "/" and " ".  Long filenames are already catered
for in 4ed, perhaps we can extend "lnfs" to deal, optionally, with
this translation.

++L