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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] molesting the acme filesystem
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:30:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B7D4B5.3070808@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060714104547.B1785@orthanc.ca>

Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, quanstro@quanstro.net wrote:
>
>> i'm not sure why acme and other plan9 filesystems typically disallow a
>> trailing newline
>> on input and don't provide one on output.
>
>
> Yup.  This one is my top entry for the confusomatic contest.

I think if there were a newline, we'd all have scripts called 'chop' for
removing it. I don't think there's a perfect answer here.

ron


  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-14 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-14  1:24 David Leimbach
2006-07-14  2:54 ` quanstro
2006-07-14  5:12   ` David Leimbach
2006-07-14 12:07     ` quanstro
2006-07-14 16:46       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-07-14 17:30         ` Ronald G Minnich [this message]
2006-07-14 17:29           ` quanstro
2006-07-14 17:48             ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-14 17:43               ` quanstro
2006-07-14 17:36           ` David Leimbach
2006-07-14 17:37             ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-14 17:33               ` quanstro
2006-07-14 17:44               ` David Leimbach
2006-07-14 17:35         ` David Leimbach

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