From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EY2uT-0003jh-NA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 14:51:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA4Elv4b030727; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:47:57 GMT Received: from gaia.prhnet (84-12-184-250.dyn.gotadsl.co.uk [84.12.184.250] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA4ElsuD008812 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:47:57 GMT Received: (qmail 16668 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2005 14:47:51 +0000 Received: from wstn.home (HELO ?192.168.129.25?) (192.168.129.25) by gaia.prhnet with SMTP; 4 Nov 2005 14:47:51 +0000 Message-ID: <436B7497.3060301@gotadsl.co.uk> Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 14:47:51 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051102) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will lough !!! References: <4369825A.2040804@softhome.net> <200511040935.05832.pauldv@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200511040935.05832.pauldv@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c1acaa42-1187-4923-b2ac-431695e3c089 X-Archives-Hash: 1e0fa35a34cfa327acf4a912805853f1 [OT] Paul de Vrieze wrote: > The worst part of it is that I believe that there are methods that will > allow you to make a file with such an illegal name (the API is not > consistent). Of course the file then becomes hard to use or delete ;-). 30 years ago I worked with a stream editor and paper tape. The editor wouldn't read a line longer than 80 chars*, but it would happily output one. I spent many happy hours with a unipunch blotting out characters until the offending line was short enough. Paperless office? Yeah. * I may have the wrong number here. [/OT] -- Rgds Prof Punch. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list