From atossava at cc.helsinki.fi  Thu Feb 19 12:05:10 2004
From: atossava at cc.helsinki.fi (Atro Tossavainen)
Date: Thu Feb 19 12:05:22 2004
Subject: [Rd] src/scripts/Makefile bug (PR#6598)
In-Reply-To: <16435.55491.810396.856921@mithrandir.hornik.net> from Kurt Hornik
	at "Feb 18, 2004 10:27:31 pm"
Message-ID: <200402191105.i1JB5AUN016861@kruuna.Helsinki.FI>

Kurt,

> Which would then fail for people who for some reason have # in their
> file path.  I am not sure there is an easy fix for the problem.  One
> idea might be setting up a pipeline which tries different separators.
> 
> Any other ideas?

Your point is of course valid, but I'm not aware of any systems that
habitually use the number sign as a path component (which should not
be taken as proof that such systems do not exist, of course), whereas
in AFS, the @ sign appears everywhere because of the "magic" @sys
component.

I doubt it would be possible to use the null character as the separator
in sed, but if so, I seem to recall that it cannot appear in file names...

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[Rd] src/scripts/Makefile bug (PR#6598)
Atro Tossavainen