From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 20:10:34 +0100 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d0443069c99337905216044ac Subject: Re: [9fans] Frogs? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 706c1b9e-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --f46d0443069c99337905216044ac Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 5 October 2015 at 17:42, Kare Nuorteva wrote: > Could someone please explain what is a frog in a filename? It's many decades old, and not restricted to file names. It originally referred to an unexpected non-ASCII character in a text file: "There's a frog in my file!" It was sometimes put there by a buggy editor or corrupt file system. By extension it's a character, still usually unprintable (before Unicode fonts), that doesn't belong in its context. It's a bit of a stretch to call "/" a frog, but that's just the name of the array. --f46d0443069c99337905216044ac Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

= On 5 October 2015 at 17:42, Kare Nuorteva <kare.nuorteva@me.com>= wrote:
Could someone please expla= in what is a frog in a filename?

It's many decade= s old, and not restricted to file names. It originally referred to an unexp= ected non-ASCII character in a text file:
&= quot;There's a frog in my file!" It was sometimes put there by a b= uggy editor or corrupt file system. By extension it's a
character, still usually unprintable (before Unicode fonts= ), that doesn't belong in its context. It's a bit of a stretch to c= all "/" a frog,
but that's ju= st the name of the array.
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