From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:55:42 -0400 From: john@csplan9.rit.edu In-Reply-To: <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: 0bdc4d92-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:00:44 -0400 > erik quanstrom wrote: > >> > note that this won't work if the filenames contain white space. >> > >> > (i still regret the fact that white space became allowable in file names) >> >> using ws in filenames is a fossil-only problem; >> kfs, cwfs and ken's fs won't allow it. >> >> fortunately, fossil is easy to fix >> >> /n/dump/2009/0616/sys/src/cmd/fossil/9p.c:102,108 - 9p.c:102,108 >> } >> >> for(p = name; *p != '\0'; p++){ >> - if((*p & 0xFF) < 040){ >> + if((*p & 0xFF) <= 040){ >> vtSetError("bad character in file name"); >> return 0; >> } >> >> - erik >> > > So what happens when you drawterm from a un*x box or access a VFAT partition? Perhaps 9fat could dynamically translate spaces in filenames to some character illegal in Windows file names and not special to rc, if there is such a character. I don't recall what characters are illegal in Windows filenames but for the purposes of example assume ~ is illegal: 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. John