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From: drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: Parsing filenames with blanks inside Rexx
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Date: 13 Jan 91 09:39:32 GMT
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In article <41103@nigel.ee.udel.edu> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>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.  

Current systems might exhibit this behavior, but it is non-portable.
POSIX 1003.1 explicitly states that all characters except slash and 0x00
are valid.


Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center 
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