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Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Mon Mar 3 19:08:57 CST 2008


Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>> And there really isn't any reason one cannot create filenames with
>> slashes in them in UNIX.  The only OS I know of that completely
>> prohibits it is Windows.
> 
> Even Windoze can't stop us from creating files with "invalid" filenames.
> 
> You can also create a file named *.*
> (getting rid of it may be harder)

Except, in UNIX, one can have a completely *valid* filename with slashes 
in it.  Or almost any other character in the system character-set really.

Peace...  Sridhar


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