Am Fre, 2003-09-19 um 15.27 schrieb Alexander G. M. Smith: > > What about '"' or even ' '? > > No, they cause problems with various shell special characters. > So you'd have to escape them with a preceeding backslash if you used > them. That's awkward (even more than using a shifted letter like "_").
That was a joke. I just wanted to express that I consider the other suggestions awkward, too. > .reiserfs-metadata is English. So what? Whoever understands '.,' or similar can understand English (at that level) as well. > And it's also ReiserFS specific Call it .metadata if you wish. I just wanted to say that a reasonable English name will be easier to understand than ".," for almost everybody. > Saving typing effort on teletype keyboards is an ancient Unix tradition. The question is if that tradition is really so important in this context. Will that file name be typed more often than, say, '.xsession-errors' or '.nautilus-metafile.xml'? Martin -- Martin Wilck Phone: +49 5251 8 15113 Fujitsu Siemens Computers Fax: +49 5251 8 20409 Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] D-33106 Paderborn http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/primergy
