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Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
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Sat, 11 Jan 2003 02:26:59 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Dan Boger writes:
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:42:07PM +0000, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
The next level of problems is that the parts tracker is
implemented in Perl and running on a Unix system.  Formally
any byte but zero can be used in a Unix file name (which
means that a line-break is an acceptable file name in Unix
;-), but the Perl implementation might have some additional
limitations

I'd have to look at the code again, but there's no reason why it
couldn't deal with anything :)

True, but it'd probably be better to restrict ourselves to a limited set of
characters that are well-supported in file and path names on different OS's
and protocols.

But you already knew that, right? ;)

Steve



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  Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
 
(...) I'd have to look at the code again, but there's no reason why it couldn't deal with anything :) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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