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From: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: Clarification
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Date: 18 Jul 90 11:59:45 GMT
References: <1990Jul17.032609.11091@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
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In article <1990Jul17.032609.11091@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>, tfabian@falcon.lerc.nasa.gov (Teddy Fabian) writes:
>     eg. file naming constraints on the different platforms can cause
>     problems.. the Sun cannot handle special characters such as the _ or
>     the / in file names.. since the Apollo can, transferring a document
>     with such a character in it's name using IDU results in failure...
>     to cure problem, rename the file...

     Just to set the record straight for other users, Suns (and any Unix 
machine) can handle "_" in file names, and most any character except "/".
Your shell may disallow certain characters, but you can use the open()
system call to use just about any name you want.

> [ various techniques to move Interleaf files around deleted ]

     Frame's binary format has a magic number at the front, which tells the
reader how the writer wrote the file.  As far as I know, all platforms running
Frame can read any document produced on any machine.

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