Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!corton!irisa!harley From: harley@irisa.fr (Jon Harley) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: Wierd filenames Message-ID: <1990Nov30.192213.7228@irisa.fr> Date: 30 Nov 90 19:22:13 GMT References: Sender: news@irisa.fr Followup-To: comp.os.misc Distribution: comp Organization: IRISA, Rennes (France) Lines: 28 In article bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) writes: >Are there any ASCII based OSs that allow you to create filenames that >contain the ASCII character NUL? >[...] >Is there any system that does allow NUL in the name? If you know of >one, could you (send me)/post details of how the file is created (e.g. >shell script, fragment of C, ADA, BLISS, ... etc.) >Stephen J. Bevan bevan@cs.man.ac.uk Honeywell multics (RIP), at least v 11, let you. You just typed \000 and NUL was inserted (you could insert any ascii character by giving a 3 digit octal code in this way). You could also create directories called "<" (which means to multics what "../" means to unix), which confused the hell out of the accounting software! Ah... the good old days, of wombat.forum at bham.multics... Jon. -- __________________________________ / --Jonathan Harley smile! :-) / "Le plaisir // // // / *temporarily working in France* / de comprendre"... // // ////// /_______E-MAIL: harley @ irisa.fr /_________________________//////////// //