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[Sridhar Ayengar]

der Mouse wrote:
>>> And there really isn't any reason one cannot create filenames with
>>> slashes in them in UNIX.
> 
> There is, actually: the API doesn't permit it.  Unless your "filenames"
> means pathnames (rather than pathname components), in which case it's
> true but trivially uninteresting.
> 
> Some systems have APIs (or other interfaces, such as the NFS server
> network interface) that permit getting a slash into a pathname
> component, but to the extent that that's possible, I don't think it's
> fair to call them Unix, because the Unix filesystem APIs all treat
> slashes as pathname component separators.
> 
>> True - you CAN create filenames with forward slashes in them.
> 
> What OSes are you two using, and how are you creating these "filenames"
> containing slashes?  Whatever they are, in this respect, they certainly
> aren't "Unix".

It was (an older) AIX on JFS.  I don't remember exactly what I screwed 
up to do it, but it was something fairly bizarre.

Peace...  Sridhar