Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!crackers!transfer!lectroid!lectroid.sw.stratus.com!lennox From: lennox@minilove.diag.stratus.com (Craig Scott Lennox) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: Wierd filenames Message-ID: Date: 30 Nov 90 19:25:52 GMT References: Sender: usenet@lectroid.sw.stratus.com Distribution: comp Organization: /u/minilove/lennox/.organization Lines: 17 In-reply-to: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk's message of 27 Nov 90 20:33:37 GMT In article bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) writes: UNIX (SunOS 4.1 actually) seems to allow most other characters in the name e.g. a space, but I can't get it to accept a NUL. The reason you can't is that NUL is used by the UNIX kernel to terminate a filename. Craig. -- | flame me at: lennox@minilove.diag.stratus.com, (Craig Scott Lennox) | |"Oh boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a REALLY BIG ram disk!" | | Disclaimer: My opinions are covered by section 2b of the Gnu Public | | License and thus do not belong to Stratus Computer. |