[slime-devel] .slime/fasl/ directory names

[Lynn Quam]

I discovered that the architecture dependent directory names in
$HOME/.slime/fasl/ contain "non-standard" characters for Unix file
names.  For example:

    /homedir/quam/.slime/fasl/cmu-snapshot 2005-09 (19b)-linux-x86

I understand why this is the case, but it can be somewhat annoying
because of the difficulty in properly "escaping" those names in the
various Unix shells.  For example, 

   find . -name '*.x86f' | xargs grep '(defun '
   grep: ./cmu-snapshot: No such file or directory
   grep: 2005-09: No such file or directory

Admittedly, this is not a good example, but consider:

     find . -name '*.x86f' | xargs rm

This wouldn't be a problem with if we had something like the Scheme-Shell (scsh),
but ...