[Ohrrpgce] SVN: teeemcee/8828 Finally add new Custom title screen. Also add a help file

[James Paige]

Haha! That url burns my eyes!

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 8:54 AM, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd forgotten about URLs, but if we ever do a web port this will help to
> ensure our escaping is working correctly ;)
>
> You haven't seen escaping woes until you've had to deal with
> quadruple-escaped names like these:
> http://www.castleparadox.com/archive/operationohr/gamelist-
> display.php?username=Zach%255C%255C%255C%2527s%2520Evil%
> 2520Plan%2520To%2520Save%2520Taco%2520Bell
>
> On 8 June 2017 at 03:45, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I went googling around a bit, and learned that % in filenames is
>> annoying for batch files, mildly inconvenient for a few edge cases in shell
>> scripting, and widely recommended against for what appears to be purely
>> superstitious reasons.
>>
>> So I am just going to count my aversion to it as superstition.
>>
>> It ain't like I haven't worked with enough filenames that get "%20"
>> embedded in them one way or another ;)
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Aside from its special role in the Bourne shell and a mention of an
>>> obscure realtime OS from the 70's at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
>>> Filename, % doesn't seem to be reserved anywhere.
>>> (If you try to look up a list of reserved characters on Windows, you
>>> find out that there is no such list, for various scary reasons, such as
>>> that it depends on the filesystem and system codepage! The Windows kernel
>>> itself is agnostic, just like Linux; afterall it is POSIX compliant)
>>>
>>> On that note, I note that fixfilename (used in inputfilename) is too
>>> restrictive, and find_file_portably isn't restrictive enough.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7 June 2017 at 23:57, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> A % sign in a filename makes me nervous... Should it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, June 6, 2017, <subversion at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> teeemcee
>>>>> 2017-06-06 23:54:52 -0700 (Tue, 06 Jun 2017)
>>>>> 57
>>>>> Finally add new Custom title screen. Also add a help file
>>>>> ---
>>>>> U   wip/custom.bas
>>>>> A   wip/data/choose_rpg.slice
>>>>> A   wip/data/logo50%.bmp
>>>>> U   wip/ohrhelp/main.txt
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