Kernel Hacks & Weird Filenames

[Clifford C. Skolnick]

In article <326 at augean.OZ> idall at augean.OZ (Ian Dall) writes:
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: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.

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: Ian Dall           "In any argument there will be people on your
:                     side who you wish were on the other side."
:idall at augean.oz


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