[GRASS-dev] g.mlist as C implementation?

[Hamish]

Maris Nartiss wrote:
> Just a idea - would it be possible to #IFDEF OS specific illegal chars
> for this function? Only problem for such approach could be tar'ing
> location/gisdbase and moving to other system (move *nix files with ":"
> to windows).
> Or - for GRASS 7 - get rid of map_name==file_name at all. Assign some
> random file name (gr_0982193) and store map name in it's header
> (my!@*&^*!#(*^!*@&raster). Such approach could eliminate illegal map
> name problem at all. Drawback - no easy way how to tell which map is
> stored in which file w/o GRASS (it can be solved by providing some
> "table of contents" file).


For me, I use "locate" and "find" all the time to find what mapset I put
something in. To have to use find+grep would be a pain.

2c
Hamish