From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 2 17: 0:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bogslab.ucdavis.edu (bogslab.ucdavis.edu [169.237.68.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C18037B407 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 17:00:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thistle.bogs.org (thistle.bogs.org [198.137.203.61]) by bogslab.ucdavis.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA94238 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 17:00:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu) Received: from thistle.bogs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thistle.bogs.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f92NvnS08486 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:57:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greg@thistle.bogs.org) Message-Id: <200110022357.f92NvnS08486@thistle.bogs.org> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-To: Giorgos Keramidas X-Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ALT- (Was: how to make 'for' understand two words as a single argumen) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Oct 2001 02:05:04 +0300." <20011003020504.A16924@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 16:57:49 -0700 From: Greg Shenaut Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20011003020504.A16924@hades.hell.gr>, Giorgos Keramidas cleopede: >Greg Shenaut wrote: >> >> I just throw out the idea--as for where to enforce such a convention, >> I agree that the file-system definition may not be the best place, >> but it might be the *easiest* place (spaces could be silently mapped >> to 0xa0's). > >Please don't even think about it. When I write a space, I mean a space, and >silently doing things behind my back, is something I have not been used to >expecting from Unix. Right. Easiest is not necessarily best, in this case for exactly your reason. If you want a space in a filename, the Unix tradition clearly favors your having one. But you have to admit, space is a character that has caused many problems in Unix filenames, because of the other Unix tradition of space-delimited word record handling. I usually use an underscore, myself, if I want a space-like separation in a filename, but I could (and have) used 0xa0 for a similar purpose. Just out of curiosity, what would be an instance where you have wanted a space in a filename and wouldn't have been satisfied with 0xa0 instead of 0x20? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message