Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!kodak!gizzmo!lazlo!ccs From: ccs@lazlo.UUCP (Clifford C. Skolnick) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Kernel Hacks & Weird Filenames Message-ID: <56@lazlo.UUCP> Date: 11 May 88 04:50:38 GMT References: <13041@brl-adm.ARPA> <14020039@hpisod2.HP.COM> <326@augean.OZ> Reply-To: ccs@lazlo.UUCP (Clifford C. Skolnick) Organization: The Steam Tunnel, Henrietta, NY Lines: 29 In article <326@augean.OZ> idall@augean.OZ (Ian Dall) writes: ... :If done in the terminal driver, new stty options could be added to say :what characters are to be considered unprintable. This could break :some things which like to setup terminals by using "cat foo" where foo :is a file full of special characters but this already has potential :problems if foo has ^M, ^J or ^I in it (perhaps we need a r(aw)cat). :Yes I know the terminal stuff is already a mess but at least this :concentrates the mess in one place :-). This scheme handles European, :Japanese or whatever character sets fairly well. This solution will also handle any control strings for the terminal. I wonder what "vi" would look like on his terminal :-). Many things would break if you put the stuff in the kernel tty driver, let's leave it in the "ls" or "cat" command. By the way, isn't there a Berkleyish type command "see" which does expand these things? I seem to remember "ls | see" from somewhere, maybe it was Xenix. :-- : Ian Dall "In any argument there will be people on your : side who you wish were on the other side." :idall@augean.oz -- Clifford C. Skolnick | - Never insult 7 men while carrying a six shooter - Phone: (716) 427-8046 | /!kodak!pcid!gizzmo! \ PACKET: N1DPH@WB2VPH | ...!rutgers!rochester lazlo!ccs BITNET: CCS6277@RITVAX | \!ritcv!ritcsh!sabin!/