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From: Rob Pike rob@pla...
Subject: [9fans] allowing space (ASCII 0x20) in file names
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 09:50:34 -0400

Leaving the null byte in made the specification and the code easier.
The Unix thing of 14 bytes with a null sometimes was a) harder and
b) gotten wrong by a lot of programs.

-rob