Xref: utzoo alt.folklore.computers:3530 comp.unix.wizards:22202 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!ralf From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: filename separators and option indicators Keywords: separator, delimiter,~,`,!,@,#,$,%,^,&,*,(,),-,_,=,+,[,{,],},\,|,',",;,:,/,?,.,>,',',< Message-ID: <9460@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 30 May 90 11:35:24 GMT References: <8687@cs.utexas.edu> <150@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> <1990May30.045903.14249@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 20 In article <1990May30.045903.14249@agate.berkeley.edu> dankg@ocf.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Kogai) writes: }a lot of CLIs, I love UNIX the best and always have trouble typing "A:\foo\bar" }but none of CLI implementation of delimiter will be intuitive enough. }On Macintosh, thanks to GUI, only ":" is reserved as delimiter and it's }directory delimiter. That makes MPW users (Hi, robert!) hard to deal with }files but for the "rest of them" it's nice to be able to make such file names }as "Foo killed bar's blech". total 240 -rw-r--r-- 1 ralf 0 May 30 07:29 Foo killed bar's bletch -rw-r--r-- 1 ralf 231682 May 30 07:11 frain13r.zip You were saying?... The only printable character you CAN'T put into a Unix filename is the forward slash. -- {backbone}!cs.cmu.edu!ralf ARPA: RALF@CS.CMU.EDU FIDO: Ralf Brown 1:129/46 BITnet: RALF%CS.CMU.EDU@CMUCCVMA AT&Tnet: (412)268-3053 (school) FAX: ask DISCLAIMER? | _How_to_Prove_It_ by Dana Angluin 20. by vehement assertion: It What's that?|is useful to have some kind of authority relation to the audience