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From: forsyth@cal... forsyth@cal...
Subject: [9fans] allowing space (ASCII 0x20) in file names
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 07:24:59 BST

>>But I think this is missing the point. Filesystems in the 9P mode are
>>for programmers, not for users. No-one really cares whether they
>>have 27 bytes worth of filename or 255 ISO-Latin-1 characters,
>>or even what the computer has to do to to ensure you can have
>>chess symbols in filenames: all they're bothered about is whether
>>or not they can find their files again. Is a simple name the best way

that has been my point of view in this as well.