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 More options Nov 5 2012, 1:20 pm
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From: Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid.invalid>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 18:20:38 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Mon, Nov 5 2012 1:20 pm
Subject: Re: Obnoxious postings from Google Groups
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On 2012-11-05, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 17:39:35 +1100, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

>> It's nothing to do with operating system. File names are names, and
>> spaces in them are seldom worth the hassle unless you manipulate those
>> files solely using a GUI.

>    At least spaces are visible.

>    CP/V would accept non-printable characters in file names... Things
> like BEL were valid -- but figure out where in the name the BEL
> character was when listing the directory contents <G>

Don't most OSes allow non-printing characters in filenames?  VMS and
Unix always have.  AFAIK, there are only two characters that can't
appear in a Unix filename: '\x00' and '/'.

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