Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!rose!ccplumb
From: ccplumb@rose.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AREXX technical question
Keywords: interface error
Message-ID: <17221@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 13 Oct 89 22:39:27 GMT
References: <280@seti.inria.fr>
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Reply-To: ccplumb@rose.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <280@seti.inria.fr> rouaix@inria.inria.fr (Francois Rouaix) writes:
> (Auxiliary question: do we have a character that may *never* appear
> in an amigados filename ?)

There is exactly one character, the forward slash.  It has a special
meaning to pathnames, so is never part of a file name.  Colons seem
to be treated as ordinary characters after the first (type funny:file
chokes, but type df0:funny:file works), and you need to go all the
way down to building your own packets to get an ASCII null '\0', but
255 out of the 256 possible 8-bit bytes can appear in the FileInfoBlock
returned by Examine() without having to use a disk editor.
-- 
	-Colin