Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ames!amdahl!key!beep!kris From: kris@beep.UUCP (Kris Muss) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: Wierd filenames Message-ID: <116@beep.UUCP> Date: 1 Dec 90 06:27:29 GMT References: Distribution: usa Organization: The William Shatner School of Acting Lines: 23 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? I don't know about NULs, but here at beep files can be created with backspaces in them; i.e. thisat This would show up on a 'ls' as "that". The backspaces can be seen by doing "ls | cat -v". To remove such a file by name, you would have to type in the backspaces (as expected). I found one of these in beep and it was a b*tch to remove because I had forgotten just WHERE in the file name the backspaces were. -- Port'naybl key!beep!kris -OR- woodowl!beep!kris "For men without women are like fish without water to swim in; Was (Not Was) their eyes bugging out, they flop on the beach "Shadow & Jimmy" and stare up at the girls who are just out of reach."