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To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
Subject: Re: ALT-<sp> (Was: how to make 'for' understand two words as a single argumen) 
Cc: Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Oct 2001 02:05:04 +0300."
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Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 22:27:42 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.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

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