[ale] Archiving directories/files with "compressed" mirror version

[Brian Pitts]

Mike Harrison wrote:
>> It's something I have done several times before.  Users of GUIs *love*
>> spaces and other weird characters in their filenames, and so most of the
> 
> I would actually PAY Microsoft (and the Linux/FOSS community)
> to make spaces and weird characters (like ? and &) in filenames go away.
> Especially "spaces" and all their variations (%20, char 240.. )

I bet you could pay someone to write a filesystem using FUSE that will
"mount" a directory and present a view of it with all spaces and weird
characters removed from the filenames. Similar concepts (e.g. pytagfs)
have already been implemented.

-Brian