From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] dumb question From: "rob pike, esq." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 12:49:50 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: bdeb9cbe-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 It strikes me that the arguments people are making against having blanks in file names are the same arguments I heard against converting Plan 9 to Unicode and UTF: too hard, too much code to change, too many symmetries broken. But there's no way this problem is as hard as that conversion, and we handled that one just fine. All that's missing is a concerted effort to push ahead, plus the will to do so. Neither seems to be forthcoming, though. Oh well. -rob