Re: [9fans] Frogs?

[Charles Forsyth]

On 5 October 2015 at 17:42, Kare Nuorteva  wrote:

> Could someone please explain what is a frog in a filename?


It's many decades old, and not restricted to file names. It originally
referred to an unexpected non-ASCII character in a text file:
"There's a frog in my file!" It was sometimes put there by a buggy editor
or corrupt file system. By extension it's a
character, still usually unprintable (before Unicode fonts), that doesn't
belong in its context. It's a bit of a stretch to call "/" a frog,
but that's just the name of the array.

[9fans] Frogs?

[Kare Nuorteva]

Hello,

I've bumped into frogs a few times while lurking on this list, but cannot make 
much sense out of it. Could someone please explain what is a frog in a filename?

Cheers,
Kare

Re: [9fans] Frogs?

[Nick Owens]

http://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front/file/tip/sys/src/9/port/chan.c?style=gitweb#l1637

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Kare Nuorteva  wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I've bumped into frogs a few times while lurking on this list, but cannot 
> make much sense out of it. Could someone please explain what is a frog in a 
> filename?
>
> Cheers,
> Kare
>
>
>
>

Re: [9fans] Frogs?

[Skip Tavakkolian]

chars that, by convention, convey information in-band when dealing with
files (e.g. '/'); they require quoting when used in file names.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Kare Nuorteva  wrote:

>
>
> Hello,
>
> I've bumped into frogs a few times while lurking on this list, but cannot
> make much sense out of it. Could someone please explain what is a frog in a
> filename?
>
> Cheers,
> Kare
>
>
>
>
>