Text-mode apps (Was :Who are the "spacists"?)

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Sun, 2 Apr 2017 03:18 am, Alain Ketterlin wrote:

> Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> writes:
> 
>> It would be nice to be able to use a / in my file names. Funny enough,
>> I'm allowed to use a zillion unprintable characters in my file names but
>> no slashes allowed.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>>    results-Q2/2017.json
> 
> Use U+2215 (DIVISION SLASH).

That is *deliciously* evil. I like it.
 
> I have tried this once. "Next time you're fired/dead" (and less pleasant
> variants) was the only comment I got from people I shared files with.

:-)

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