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Subject: Re: talkBox filenames

Re: talkBox filenames

From: Jack <jack_at_sylviawebster.f2s.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:24:27 +0100

"'~' has special significance on *nix systems"

Really? I never knew that! What does it mean, if that isn't too OT?

I, in the past, was looking for a charecter which would send a file to the bottom of a sorted list. I suppose the only ones are { } | ~ . None are really suited for use.

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On 19.04.2004 at 02:02 PM Brian Wolven wrote:

>Jack wrote:
>> Yes... but no. Someone today suggested we should use ~ as a prefix, to
>send it to the bottom of the list. Does anyone have any insightful
>comments about that?
>>
>> Otherwise, Underscore seems fine.
>>
>> I think we're all sure we want .talk , however.
>
>'~' has special significance on *nix systems, and should probably be
>avoided. It looks like underscore is the best bet for now, although it
>*would* be nice to have the files fall to the bottom of the listing so
>as not to mess up the correspondence between track and file numbering
>(for albums, at least) in 'view all' mode, as Jörg said.
>
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