Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!ee.udel.edu From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: Wierd filenames Message-ID: <37745@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 30 Nov 90 21:05:37 GMT References: <1990Nov29.143756.43331@cc.usu.edu> Sender: usenet@ee.udel.edu Distribution: comp Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 13 Nntp-Posting-Host: snow-white.ee.udel.edu 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? AmigaDOS, at the lowest filesystem interface, uses counted strings for the file name, so I imagine it would be possible to put NULs in a name. My question is "Why do you ask?" -- Darren -- --- Darren New --- Grad Student --- CIS --- Univ. of Delaware --- ----- Network Protocols, Graphics, Programming Languages, Formal Description Techniques (esp. Estelle), Coffee, Amigas ----- =+=+=+ Let GROPE be an N-tuple where ... +=+=+=