Apple ][/II/2

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 07:30:44 CST 2008


Chuck Guzis wrote:
> Cameron Kaiser wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Careful, Chuck.  I actually wrote the below:

>> 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.



> Why all this talk about U**X?  CP/M allows pretty much anything in a 
> filename.  I'm particularly fond of the file names with backspaces 
> and carriage return-linefeed pairs in them. 
> 
> The problem with using "][" instead of "II" that text-to-speech 
> programs get tonguetied trying to parse it. :)

I can imagine.

Peace...  Sridhar


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