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From: shore@mtxinu.COM (Melinda Shore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Help!  There's a slash '/' in my filename.
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.231354.5305@mtxinu.COM>
Date: 4 Feb 91 23:13:54 GMT
References: <821@nddsun1.sps.mot.com> <2665@trlluna.trl.oz>
Reply-To: shore@mtxinu.com (Melinda Shore)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley
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In article <2665@trlluna.trl.oz> mcf@trlamct.trl.oz.au (Michael Flower) writes:
>The problem is NOT fixable using other UNIX commands, since they all reference
>the file via namei, which knows about '/' as being a path component
>seperator.

This is not really true.  adb is certainly up to the job, and I suspect
that emacs could do the trick, too.  As long as you can get into the raw
device you have many options for changing the filename.
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               Software longa, hardware brevis
Melinda Shore                                 shore@mtxinu.com
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