Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>
> Michael Sinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?)
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