Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Phil Carmody Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Piping to stdin Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 23:32:22 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 37 Message-ID: <87o7j82gix.fsf@fatphil.org> References: <9e7a4bd1-bfbb-4df7-af1a-27ca9625e50bn@googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9176dbab4427e178b28c3a609a56f3cb"; logging-data="3127462"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/ZdG0yVe9y+mdzYYgdvBTQ" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6R4WBsPcCGkxmq8qQ0xFHAsf3rs= sha1:TV3sPED6yO6q0TXnu2FZbMYdjX4= Xref: csiph.com comp.unix.programmer:14342 comp.lang.c:172335 Muttley@dastardlyhq.com writes: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:12:19 -0000 (UTC) > kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) wrote: >>Kenny McCormack wrote: >>> But do they know that??? >> >>"They" probably don't know it. But let's face it, >>nobody really wants to create a file having '-' >>filename on purpose. The filename is not descriptive >>at all, it would be just an insane choice for anything >>useful. > > I used to think the same thing about spaces in filenames. Then along came > Windows. Your memory if flawed. Spaces were always allowed in unix filenames. Often used to hide things in plain sight on FTP sites, for example. MS Windows didn't allow spaces until Windows 95. I remember the Apple advert at the time - it was a double-page spread which basically just said: C:\NGRTLTNS.W95 in a gajillion-point high font. I pulled that out of a newspaper and had it on my wall at work. Not because I was an Apple fanboi, far from it, but my disdain for all things MS Windows was already entrenched, and I was being forced to use it for the not-the-actual-work part of my job (which was on Sun workstations). Phil -- We are no longer hunters and nomads. No longer awed and frightened, as we have gained some understanding of the world in which we live. As such, we can cast aside childish remnants from the dawn of our civilization. -- NotSanguine on SoylentNews, after Eugen Weber in /The Western Tradition/