DOS/Windows and slashes (was Re: Windows XP Pro and Possible filePro Bug)

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Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
At about Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 12:54:19AM -0500,
Bill Vermillion blabbed on about:
> I always thought the  --  instead of the  -  that did us so well
> for years was excessive - but then the options started getting
> excessive in themselves.

Google the man page for AFIO once.  I think the first entry in the BUGS
section is, "Too many command line options."

> My finger slipped off the 'v' key onto the adjacent 'c' key and
> I type   ci <filename> when I wanted to type  vi <filename>.
> But that's how we learn isn't it?  Have you ever done that one?

Yeah, I've buggered something into CVS that way.  Funnily, I was trying to
type CVS just now and -three- times in a row typed VCS instead before I
could force it to go right.  :)

I hate being at an odd angle and hitting caps lock instead of tab or shift
while I'm in vi as well.  Boy, can -that- suck.  I type under a blanket
sometimes so it's not like I -always- have the lights to look at.

> Or things which come in from a Mac world where a / is permitted
> in a file name.  I have enough problems with <spaces> when things
> get moved cross-platform.

I just tried escaping one in *nix and no joy.  (touch bli\/p)  You can
escape damned near everything else, including control characters.  Not
slashes.  Okay, now that OS/X is stacked on top of BSD 4.2 or 4.3 (I've
heard conflicting stories...but the most consistent one is that it's just
like NeXTStep--BSD 4.2 on top of the Mach microkernel), how do they honour
legacy Mac OS/n<=9 filenames if you can't escape that character even in
modern unixen?  I can't even force perl to take it on *nix, so it's not a
shell thing...it's the OS.

And why do you have trouble with spaces?  Just put quotes around it if
typing longhand, or use tab completion in your shell and let it escape
itself with \'s.  I do it all the time--multiple times a day--when
accessing files between both OSes.

mark->
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