Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 22:27:42 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> Cc: Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ALT-<sp> (Was: how to make 'for' understand two words as a single argumen) Message-ID: <200110030427.f934Rg718394@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Oct 2001 02:05:04 %2B0300." <20011003020504.A16924@hades.hell.gr> References: <20011003020504.A16924@hades.hell.gr> <20011002185518.A335@firedrake.org> <200110021841.f92IfVS07537@thistle.bogs.org>
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In message <20011003020504.A16924@hades.hell.gr> Giorgos Keramidas writes: : Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu> 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. Too much would break if you were to do force the filesystem to reject/map spaces like that. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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