Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!ugle.unit.no!nuug!ifi!enag From: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Help! There's a slash '/' in my filename. Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 91 09:15:08 GMT References: <19025@rpp386.cactus.org> <2902@charon.cwi.nl> <5857@auspex.auspex.com> <1991Feb13.120201.13608@eik.ii.uib.no> Sender: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) Distribution: comp Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: bzs@world.std.com's message of 14 Feb 91 09:33:17 GMT In article , Barry Shein writes: > From: s082@brems.ii.uib.no > >Just one thing: Why would anyone want a slash (or any such character) a > >filename in the first place? > Perhaps the file name was in Norwegian? :-) I fail to see the humor in this. > Doesn't norwegian use o-slash and all that? Norwegian does overload (as per ISO 646) [\]{|} into (ISO 8859-1 alert) FXEfxe, but / remains /. Norwegians may actually use - or . to separate the parts of the date spec, so you might be better off with one of us Viking descendants... (Presently, I'm glad that we did not inherit their Runes, even though the winter weather outside is reminiscent of the Fimbulvinter we will see shortly before, or was it after, the end of the world.) My parents were fortunately smart enough to choose a family name without any of the "national" characters, and to give me a name without any of them, too, which might or might not have been caused by a quite astonishing amount of foresight. I've already decided on a dedication line for any books I might produce: To my parents, who kindly avoided F, X, and E in my name. Finally, I hope this makes it out with the ISO 8859-1 intact. If not, some of you might wonder what's so special with F, X and E. -- [Erik Naggum] Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway