Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!geoffw
From: geoffw@xenitec.on.ca (Geoffrey Welsh)
Subject: Slash in filename
Organization: Xenitec Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON, CANADA
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Date: Tue, 05 Feb 91 16:28:40 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Feb05.162840.10535@xenitec.on.ca>
Summary: can't you escape a character in a filename?
Sender: root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh)

   I don't suppose it's possible to escape the slash in the filename,
i.e. something like "split\/name"?

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