Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 08:45:08 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ALT-<sp> (Was: how to make 'for' understand two words as a single argumen) Message-ID: <3BBAFA44.14AE7BC3@newsguy.com> References: <200110022357.f92NvnS08486@thistle.bogs.org>
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Greg Shenaut wrote: > > 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? What I most do not understand this is what does a-acute (0xa0) have to do with space? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.secret.bsdconspiracy.net wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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