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From: dankg@lightning.Berkeley.EDU (Dan KoGai)
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Subject: Re: filename separators and option indicators
Keywords: separator, delimiter,~,`,!,@,#,$,%,^,&,*,(,),-,_,=,+,[,{,],},\,|,',",;,:,/,?,.,>,',',<
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Date: 31 May 90 06:53:35 GMT
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In article <9460@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) writes:
>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.

	Gee, I knew that:  You can quote file name in shell and just do
fopen("~!@#$%^&*()-_=+[{]}\\|\'\";:?.>,<", "w") in c source or anything but
in reality those drive your shell nuts.  As far as Unix has no Finder
or SFDialog to access these files witout pain, we'd better stay away from
those nasty punctuation marks...

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