> If all dots were escaped, these layers would be kept separate. Then > manpage filenames would reliably be of the form:
> page "." section-extension ( "." other-extension )* > Such a filename can be correctly split at dots without knowing what > manual sections, compression tools, and other tools are in existence. Yes, it could. You still haven't explained why this is a valuable property, in particular why it's more valuable than preserving existing filenames for existing manpages (eg, resolv.conf(5)). As far as I can see, manpage filename encoding does not need to be a two-way process as far as automated tools are concerned. Manpage names get converted into filenames, but I see no reason for anything below the human layer to go the other way. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
