% in filenames

Jacques A. Vidrine nectar at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 18 05:23:03 PST 2004


On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:08:24PM +0100, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> Mark Santcroos wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Is it really necessary to have the "%" in filenames?
> >(list below)
> >
> >It breaks for me having the ports tree in perforce.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Mark
> >
> >./archivers/dpkg/files/patch-utils%start-stop-daemon.c,v
> >./korean/ami/files/patch-src%ami.c,v
> >./korean/bitchx/files/patch-source%modules.c,v
> >./lang/egcs/files/patch-cp%decl.c,v
> >./lang/egcs/files/patch-cp%ptree.c,v
> >./lang/egcs/files/patch-libiberty%Makefile.in,v
> >./mail/exim-old/files/patch-src%smtp_in.c,v
> >./mail/postfix1/files/patch-src%trivial-rewrite%resolve.c,v
> >./sysutils/e2fsprogs/files/patch-intl%Makefile.in,v
> >./japanese/im-ja/files/Attic/patch-data%Makefile.in,v
> >./japanese/im-ja/files/Attic/patch-src%hiragana-convertable.h,v
> >./japanese/im-ja/files/Attic/patch-src%hiragana-convertable.txt,v
> >./japanese/im-ja/files/Attic/patch-src%wnnlib.c,v
> >./japanese/im-ja/files/patch-src%Makefile.in,v
> 
> Nope. Fixed in lang/egcs mail/exim-old mail/postfix1 sysutils/e2fsprogs,
> thanks for the heads-up.
> 
> Oliver

I usually use `::' as the path separator, not `%'. I can't remember
why I used `%' for im-ja.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / nectar at celabo.org / jvidrine at verio.net / nectar at freebsd.org


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