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From:
Aristotle Pagaltzis
Date:
December 20, 2010 04:35
Subject:
Re: perldelta naming
Message ID:
20101220123520.GQ17796@klangraum.plasmasturm.org
* Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com> [2010-12-20 13:00]:
> 'AUX' is the offender I've seen the most in Unix-originated
> tarballs.

I ran into that while cloning the $dayjob.git on Windows and it
took me a good while to figure out that the problem with the
`aux` directory was its name. It’s called `misc` now and I get
a little grumpy every time I see it.


* H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> [2010-12-20 13:00]:
>   * Please no spaces, ( or & in filenames either
>
> or is that common sense?

I think so. Else you’d have to list many more, eg. : + *.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

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