Re: [9fans] simple question: multiple rename

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:52:43 -0400
erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:

> > So what happens when you drawterm from a un*x box or access a VFAT partition?
>
> nothing.  i'm running ken's fs, so from drawterm i have
>
> 	; echo > 'silly file'
> 	; lc silly*
> 	'silly file'
> 	; cd /tmp
> 	; echo > 'silly file'
> 	silly file: rc: can't open: 'silly file' create/wstat -- bad character in file name
>
> > Un*x seems a harder issue since no character is actually illegal,
>
> \0 is illegal.  well, not so much illegal as impossible to specify.
> (wide characters notwithstanding.)

I forgot, / is actually illegal. I'm almost (but not quite) certain that \0 is legal, and if I understand my emacs correctly you may be able to type it as ctrl-space. It displays as ^@ in emacs.


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Ethan Grammatikidis
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