Ben Scott writes:
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Tom Buskey wrote:
> > Each can inflict horrors on the other OSen (name a file prn: in Unix for
> > your windows users)
>
> An old prank was to get an MS-DOS user to issue the command:
>
> TYPE CLOCK$
>
> Which has roughly the same
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Tom Buskey wrote:
> Each can inflict horrors on the other OSen (name a file prn: in Unix for
> your windows users)
An old prank was to get an MS-DOS user to issue the command:
TYPE CLOCK$
Which has roughly the same effect as
cat /dev/urandom
If you have to deal with Windows users in your Unix filesystem (Samba),
you're going to get spaces in your filenames. If you deal with Macintosh
users (netatalk, others) you'll get more weirdness. Err, have more issues.
Each can inflict horrors on the other OSen (name a file prn: in Unix for
you
Reminds me of this talk that Jim Meyering gave--different subject,
same terror:
"Goodbye World!": The perils of relying on
output streams in C
http://www.irill.org/events/ghm-gnu-hackers-meeting/videos/jim-meyering-goodbye-world-the-perils-of-relying-on-output-streams-in-
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Michael ODonnell
wrote:
> You may find witches, ghosts and zombies at your door this
> evening but this discusses something even more horrible:
>
> http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html
This reminds me of sound on Linux. The solution
On 10/31/2013 11:38 AM, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> You may find witches, ghosts and zombies at your door this
> evening but this discusses something even more horrible:
>
> http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html
>
I got through part 1 and I'm scared. I'm not sure if it's
You may find witches, ghosts and zombies at your door this
evening but this discusses something even more horrible:
http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html
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