[TUHS] UNIX testing / error injection

[Cameron Míċeál Tyre via TUHS]

Hello Alexis,

Yes, my mistake, sorry.

On every other forum I am on, use of typewriter style monospace text to represent code snippets is, it seems, de rigueur. It becomes so ingrained that I forgot I was posting on TUHS.

For anyone who got a garbled mess, it was supposed to read as follows:

 *	File:	fsx.c
 *	Author:	Avadis Tevanian, Jr.
 *
 *	File system exerciser.
 *
 *	Rewritten 8/98 by Conrad Minshall.
 *
 *	Small changes to work under Linux -- davej.

Best wishes,

Cameron





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-------- Original Message --------
On Thursday, 04/16/26 at 02:48 Alexis via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
Cameron Míċeál Tyre via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> writes:

> The authorship is commented to be as follows:
>
> [snip use of mathematical symbols for English text]

i'd like to discourage this sort of use of mathematical symbols
from Unicode (the capital 'A' in the snipped text was
MATHEMATICAL MONOSPACE CAPITAL A) as a way of producing 'fancy
font' output in plain text. This post provides a good overview of
why it's problematic:

  https://www.foundationwebdev.com/2025/05/unicode-on-social-media/

i don't use a screenreader myself, but i know devs who do.


Alexis.