From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3D230900.47F9A746@gsyc.escet.urjc.es> From: FJ Ballesteros MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] blanks in file names References: <20020702110848.F30EA19992@mail.cse.psu.edu> <003d01c221bf$0dfd9d30$6501a8c0@xpire> <20020702132847.A490@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> <20020703135427.6DA4919991@mail.cse.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:24:00 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c09ff216-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I wouldn't say this change makes the system more complex, one thing I found after playing with this is that even though I made no change to the quote stuff in the C library, programs started to handle funny file names without relying on %q. This is the semantics for the thing I sent before: both touch 'a x' and touch 'a\0xa0x' would create a file named 'a x' Thus in both cases, ls would get 'a\0x00a0x' Besides, foreign systems would still see 'a x' (Im sorry, but don't know how to type Alt X 00A0 under windows, \x00a0 above should be read like our non-break space character). Regarding what you say about "_", I'd still like to be able to type "touch a_x.c". IMHO, the character of choice doesn't matter to much, but I think it would be better if it's not an already used character. arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp ha escrito: > > Hello, > > I prefer spaces are mapped simplly to underscores. > Then > term% touch 'some files' > create some_files > and > term% rm 'some files' > removes some_files > However, I don't think these defects are practically important. > I am rather afraid Plan9 loses simplicity. > > Kenji Arisawa > E-mail: arisawa@aichi-u.ac.jp