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symm (symm@nowhere.org) 2016/12/16 03:10

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Thanks for the info.

On 2016-12-16 10:06:09 +0000, Custer Beaton said:

> I think that abbreviation was specific to Alexander Tuesday's naming
> conventions - he used it in place of "ctc" (or "c2c") to indicate the
> book was not, in fact, a cover-to-cover scan. It was fairly intuitive
> if you saw it in the context of a string of CTC scans; in isolation,
> not so much.
>
>
>
> On 2016-12-16 03:54:48 +0000, symm said:
>
>> I've been able to figure out most of the characters replaced in some
>> filenames (to support other filesystems or URLs), but this stumps me.
>>
>> I've seen these replaced:
>>
>> :space:
>> +
>> #
>> &
>> %
>> '
>>
>> ...even sometimes the parenthesizes are replaced.
>>
>> But what 3 non-alphanumeric characters could be replaced in (___)?
>>
>> I have a feeling I'm gonna feel pretty dumb when I find out.



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