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Cc: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>
>   
>> Perhaps the best solution is to put "file=" option at the end of 
>> aliases, '\0' is marking the end of filename (it is likely the idea of 
>> andrzej about special characters).
>>     
>
> Oh, why not just make it a requirement that file= comes last, always?
>
>   

That's hardly intuitive.  I would prefer some sort of escaping for \, 
and \=.  It will also break if/when -drive gains another filename 
argument (say, for keeping shapshot data in).

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