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From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: Parsing filenames with blanks inside Rexx
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Date: 8 Jan 91 18:39:13 GMT
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In article <1406@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:
>The only character guaranteed not to be part of any filename is '00'x.

Not really true.  It is possible to put a \0 in the file name by using
BSTRs instead of C strings.  The only character that cannot be in a
OFS or FFS file name is a slash. Even that could be put in a name
with a disk editor, if nothing else. However, I imagine there would
be problems openning it if nothing else.        -- Darren
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