Re: Internal Filename Representations (was Re: Summary of I/O related RFCs)

[Chaim Frenkel]

>>>>> "JH" == Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

JH> On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:40:07AM -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>> This all seems like a lot of work for (what I would consider to be) the

JH> Read carefully the subject: *internal* representation.  If you are
JH> opening a file with open() or sysopen(), you supply a string with your
JH> native FS semantics and think no more of it.

What RFC? I couldn't find it on http://dev.perl.org/rfc/

Please explain why internally it needs to be represented as anything 
other than what the user passed in.

<chaim>
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