Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 15:39:48 -0400 From: Michael Sinz <msinz@wgate.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ALT-<sp> (Was: how to make 'for' understand two words as asingleargumen) Message-ID: <89efc3b204df3107d1@[192.168.1.4]> References: <200110022357.f92NvnS08486@thistle.bogs.org><7fffe3770386f507d1@[192.168.1.4]> <7ffffcf203a07007d1@[192.168.1.4]> <898df21204da4607d1@[192.168.1.4]>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Michael Sinz <msinz@wgate.com> writes: > > BTW - How does your system represent a file with 0xA0 in it? An ls on > > FreeBSD 4.4-Stable seems to show it as: > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 msinz msinz 0 Oct 3 12:00 foo?bar > > > > Interesting - not what I would have expected but I think "non-printables" > > are replaced by the "?" when ls runs. > > > > Even more interesting is this: > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 msinz msinz 0 Oct 3 12:00 foo?bar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 msinz msinz 1 Oct 3 12:05 foo?bar > > > > This is only "interesting" (in the sense in which you seem to use the > word) to someone who has not read the ls(1) manual page, and does not > know of the -q and -B options... This was within the context of alt-space replacing spaces in file names. As things stand now, it is not even easily usable as the main tool used to list the files in a directory does not show it correctly. (As far as the non-printables, I agree that LS is supposed to do, but is non-breaking space really a non-printable?) -- Michael Sinz ---- Worldgate Communications ---- msinz@wgate.com A master's secrets are only as good as the master's ability to explain them to others. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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