Re: Pet names, true names, and nicknames Jonathan S. Shapiro (shap@eros-os.org)
Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:28:08 -0400

> >standard, but substituting '$' for '/' in the encoding because '/' is not
> >permitted to appear in file names. [I'm not stuck on using '$' if there
is
> a
> >better choice.]
> >
>
> Could you see if "_" (underscore) is a valid choice?

If I recall correctly, underscore is a problem in EBCDIC (do you recall better, Bill?). Also, it's the character that Windoze substitutes for internal periods, so it's probably an unfortunate choice.

The currency symbol will render differently on different character sets, but a given user should always see it the same way, and all keyboards do have the symbol (as far as I know).

> I don't know what means "w.r.t."

It means "with respect to"

> It is fun to see that CM systems resembles two-way software distribution
> systems.

CM *is* a content distribution system....

shap