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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Help!  There's a slash '/' in my filename.
Message-ID: <1991Feb9.210235.25633@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 9 Feb 91 21:02:35 GMT
References: <821@nddsun1.sps.mot.com> <2665@trlluna.trl.oz> <1991Feb4.231354.5305@mtxinu.COM>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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As quoted from <1991Feb4.231354.5305@mtxinu.COM> by shore@mtxinu.COM (Melinda Shore):
+---------------
| 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.
+---------------

(GNU) Emacs won't do the job unless you've munged VALBITS and GCTYPEBITS to be
different from the standard, or you like 8MB filesystems.  And even with the
changed values, you're still limited to 32MB filesystems.

++Brandon
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