From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaj Schumacher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc? Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:02:30 +0200 Message-ID: References: <9e31b345-4cec-4ea6-8d63-d66b8355da06@p10g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <6c61b7dc-2bc2-4b22-8153-fb858cd2fab8@t1g2000pra.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219763134 18055 80.91.229.12 (26 Aug 2008 15:05:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:05:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Xah Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 26 17:06:27 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KY06H-0005rx-DZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:04:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44544 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KY05I-0000rO-Rj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:03:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KY045-0000Rp-EE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:02:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KY043-0000Qx-Bu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:02:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56294 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KY043-0000Qo-6B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:02:35 -0400 Original-Received: from dd18200.kasserver.com ([85.13.138.168]:35341) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KY042-0000YT-Gl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:02:34 -0400 Original-Received: from arwen.uni-trier.de (BAH7426.bah.pppool.de [77.135.116.38]) by dd18200.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66BC11802CD9E; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:02:35 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <6c61b7dc-2bc2-4b22-8153-fb858cd2fab8@t1g2000pra.googlegroups.com> (Xah's message of "Tue\, 26 Aug 2008 01\:42\:50 -0700 \(PDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2.50 (darwin) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57004 Archived-At: Xah wrote: > On Aug 25, 1:13 pm, Nikolaj Schumacher wrote: >> According to Wikipedia, EXT2 (1993) supports all characters. Older data >> is harder to find. > > unix uses UFS. You should be more clear if you're talking about UNIX or unix. Neither is limited to a single file system, though. The oldest UNIX file system listed in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems was the Version 6 FS, which allows "any byte except NUL and /" with a limit of 14 bytes in 1972. UFS supports "any byte except NUL" with 255 bytes and (also according to Wikipedia) was introduced in BSD 4.2 in 1983. > if i recall correctly, the ext2 didn't become popular until mid 2000. You're mistaken. But that's not relevant. The question is whether unix is, by design, capable of handling characters outside the alphanumerical range. > don't want to argue... Neither do I. I just wanted to correct your mistake, so people don't get a wrong image of unix. regards, Nikolaj Schumacher