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From: Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] simple question: multiple rename
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:19:19 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.64.0906160713490.14634@malasada.lava.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df3d588af69e80a13009d547fcd76112@csplan9.rit.edu>

> I believe it was Nemo et al.  who wrote trfs, which does essentially
> what you want--it stands between you and your badly-named files,
> presenting spaces as underscores or something to that effect.

In inferno (at least in acme-sac) the spaces coming from
my native (windows) filesystem are translated into some unicode
underscore type character.  Definitely makes for easier plumbing.
   http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/x/machine/inferno-acme-space.jpg

> John

Tim Newsham
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/



  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-16 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-05 19:58 Rudolf Sykora
2009-06-05 20:04 ` Martin Harriss
2009-06-05 20:07   ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-06-08  7:50 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-06-08  9:35   ` Russ Cox
2009-06-16 11:51     ` roger peppe
2009-06-16 12:00       ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-16 12:43         ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-06-16 12:52           ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-16 14:07             ` Russ Cox
2009-06-16 14:40               ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-16 23:00             ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-06-16 23:01               ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-17 14:34                 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-06-18 22:54                 ` John Floren
2009-06-18 22:59                   ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-16 15:48           ` Charles Forsyth
2009-06-16 15:31             ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-16 22:57               ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-06-16 15:55           ` john
2009-06-16 17:19             ` Tim Newsham [this message]
2009-06-16 23:05             ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-06-08  9:45   ` Martin Neubauer
2009-06-08 10:40     ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-06-16 18:34 Francisco J Ballesteros

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