From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:46 +0100 From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-Id: <20090617000046.0e739935.eekee57@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: References: <20090616134331.e7114d5e.eekee57@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] simple question: multiple rename Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0bf2f16e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:52:43 -0400 erik quanstrom 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. -- Ethan Grammatikidis The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer